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All those dimes are same year/same mint. Now wouldn't that seem a little bit suspicious? What was going on down at the mint that day?

 

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Mine looks similar but has no scratch marks

 

Somebody (at the mint) may have found them and kept them

 

Not at all. They are legit Broadstruck Dimes that were found inside a Mink Sewn bag. Nothing at all suspicious about it. This is a common way Mint Errors escape into circulation. If the Mint would of detected them they would have been taken away and destroyed. As stated before it is almost impossible to check every single coin minted.

 

Seems someone at the mint needed to calibrate/recalibrate the press.

 

That's exactly what I'm getting at. Plus is there a chance these could have been done on purpose for the sole reason to then bring them out of the mint for sale?

 

I don't think so.. There is not much money to make off Broadstruck Dimes. I paid $3.00 for each of them. As stated this is a common issue not intentionally done.

I suggest you take a tour of a US Mint. I visited the Philadelphia Mint. They explain very well about the minting proccess and talk a bit about how Mint Errors occur and how they deal with them. The employees working at the Mint are trained and follow strict rules when working. It's a Federal Crime to do what you think happened. Not worth it to lose your job and your freedom.

 

A Mint Employee enters the facility minting area with no metal on them.. They must leave with no metal on them. Walk through Metal Detectors are used for all employees. One day take a tour of the US Mint. See the process and you will understand. I have..

 

I'd love to go to a mint... I'm fact where I live there is one right down the street

 

Go! It will make you smarter and you will stop thinking in nagative ways about mint employees. Visual experience Knowledge is important in numismatics!

 

I never thought negatively... It was just a guess

 

Ok.. And I didn't agree with your guess. So I'm here to help you understand better.

 

Thank you

 

Nothing that a knee / hip replacement and a can a vaseline can't hide. Wasn't there some dude working at a mint somewhere who was able to smuggle out gold not too long ago, I read on one of the threads somewhere here?

If not, how could/would 25 dimes from the same mint, same year, same mint flaw all wind up in the same place at the same time?

 

Having gone through the Philadelphia Mint it is a learning experience. I highly recommend that if you have the chance to do so, go. I'm used to it but I set metal detectors off about a foot before I walk through one. Lots of metal in this body and I'll have more when this virus lets up so I can get the surgery I need. Bone on bone is painful.

 

That's what I've been told by a number of sources. I can only imagine.

 

I mentioned how 2 times.. They were found in a Mint Sewn bag! It was not done on purpose. When the coins were minted and the errors occured they were not caught. So they ended up in the mint sewn bags with probably a lot more Broadstruck dimes. I only was shown 25 of them.

If you don't understand my explanation then I don't know what else to tell you.

 

Maybe this will help. These are Mint sewn bags Know as ballistic bags. In Quarters the bag contains a face value of $50,000 and forklifts are needed to move them.

This is one opened to show what Cents are like in a bag. They are just dumped in while being counted. Once the correct number is counted the bag is sealed.

We can buy mint sewn bags with a face value of $100 but not more than that that I know of.