2000 Cent struck on 2000P 10 cent error

This is awesome graded ngc MS67. Anyone want to buy it for me? hya:

http://cgi.ebay.com/NGC-MS67-2000-C...goryZ524QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

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That's wild looking. Do you think that a dime would stretch that far.

 

very neat, and not a bad price.

 

To bad it isnt the Wide Am to boot.

 

It's hard to see how this could be classified as an error. Can anyone explain how a dime struck Denver could wind up among the planchets waiting to be struck as Cents in Philadelphia? It has to have been a deliberate creation by a Mint employee in Philadelphia. The auction ended early, maybe the Secret Service or the Mint did the right thing and confiscated it.

 

Take a closer look. The "D" on that dime has a leg that extends down below the upright.

 

You're absolutely right, it even says it on the slab. My bad.

It still doesn't explain how a struck dime supposedly got mixed in with cent planchets without a little help.

 

Struck dimes come out of the press into a hopper. Hopper is wheeled over and dumped at packaging but a couple dimes get stuck in the seam or door. Hopper is then wheeled over and filled with cent planchets. One of the dimes gets dislodged in doing so and mixes in with the cent planchets. Hopper is wheeled over and dumps the cent planchets and struck dime into the feed bin of the cent press. I have seen pictures shot of the inside of these bins when "empty" and you could see coins/planchets stuck in the seams and around the door, so this IS a plausible senario.

 

You got the 11 cent piece at a very good price. Congratulations!

P.S. Double denominations are so cool to look at maybe we could start a thread just to post photos of them.