Off center Lincoln

How do they get passed quality control?

 

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yes it is nice find

 

Pop out a million a day. Do you think that the quality department at the mint looks at each coin? It doesn't work that way. And, if they looked at each coin you would have no reason to CRH.

 

Billions upon billions produced. It's going to happen.

 

It gets past the riddler because it's normal sized. Do you really think somebody eyeballs every single coin?

 

my best one is a %3 off center from a roll I couldn't see yours fitting in a quarter roll but possibly a half dollar.

 

One of mine.

 

Nice find. Coins like this end up in large bags of 50000 coins. Get a forklift to move it. That's how they get out of the Mint. Quality Control can't look at every coin made. Yours is dated 2001 and in that year at the Philadelphia Mint, 4,959,600,000 were minted. If the mint was in operation every day that would be almost 13,500,000 million coins minted every day. Can you catch those errors?

 

The one I posted my sister found when she was inserting them into mailers at one of those advertising plants. I'm sure they were drawing them from bags.

 

Definitely

 

error coin

 

No I don't. Should have put "lol" after it.

 

We think of coins in a very individual mode... this coin / in my hand / right now.

We forget the major industrialized processes that produced it.

 

The very process that is designed by humans, which makes it just as flawed as we are! Fun for us finding these guys.

 

I believe that in the early 2000 or late 90's they upped the scanner and errors are much harder to come by. The digital age has definitely changed the error game.

 

A few years ago I purchased 20 Broadstruck Dimes at a coinshop. All were found in a Mint Sewn bag. They can and will escape from the US Mint.

I sent one example to have attributed at NGC


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@paddyman98 Thanks. That would be my first but I don't see it yet. But, it is thought and recognition that counts most.

 

Hehe.. I just quoted myself to correct my count.
I purchased 25 Broadstruck Dimes. I submitted 1 to NGC.

They have toned over the years.

 

@paddyman98 , correct me if I'm wrong, but the OP's Lincoln looks suspicious.

Don't these major off center strikes usually result in an elongating or ovaling of the planchet? The OP's coin looks perfectly round. Seems suspicious. China?

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It looks fine to me.. I have dozens of examples in my collection that are round.. Way Off Center can make them elongated.