Coin World readers read pg 68. Q David Bowers has great story but true. <for the folks that do get a copy> linderman was was a mint director in 1868 on and off till 1878 .while he was with mint he had work re striking rare 1804 gold & many other of the day & coin and selling them. and some noticed in Washington DC that a lot rare coin of the day were flooding the market.then in late 1878 they set up some hearing to look in to why there more coin selling then mint records showed minted of the coin. Linderman go sick and die before the hearing. his wife was ask and she told them that she had payed for them a coin dealer and the hearing we over. Linderman back from the grave in 2008????? Or has a worker or director help by making a rarer coin this year with U on the 2008-W
I assume you are referring to the '08 ASE with '07 reverse. Nah, I think someone just mixed up the reverse dies....to many of 'em out there.
I'd say it wasn't even a mix up. They just had a few dies leftover from 2007 and they went ahead and used them because they didn't realize that there had been a change in the hub design. Using leftover dies that don't have a date on them is a long time standard procedure. A lot of people try to claim that it was deliberate and that the mint planed it because the pictures of the 2008 W uncs on the mint website had the 2007 reverse hub. But that doesn't hold up because the 2008 dated obv ALSO was a hub of 2007 design and no such coin is known today. The pictures on the website were the same ones from 2007, they just had the 2008 date photoshopped in.
