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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4213877, member: 66&quot;]They already do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for how it could happen, two ways I can think of.&nbsp; Press was used to strike diems and one got lodge in the machine someplace, then the press was switched to cents.&nbsp; The lodged dime came loose and made its way to the coining chamber.</p><p><br /></p><p>More likely scenario.&nbsp; At that time planchets and struck coins were wheeled around in tote bins.&nbsp; These bins were used for both planchets and struck coins interchangeably as needed.&nbsp; They also have raised seams inside and a sliding door for allowing the planchets/coins to exit the bin.&nbsp; Coins/planchets would sometimes get caught in these seams/door track.&nbsp; (I have seen pictures of an &quot;empty&quot; bin that had planchets caught in those areas.)&nbsp; Use a bin for struck dimes, a couple get struck.&nbsp; Then use the same bin to transport cent planchets and the dime(s)get knocked loose and mixed in with the cent planchets.&nbsp; The dime being slightly smaller than the cent planchet will pass through the same feeding mechanisms and feeding tubes,&nbsp; The feed finger will then take that struck dime and deliver it to the coining chamber just like it would a cent planchet.&nbsp; A single cent on dime mixed in with thousands of struck cents is not likely to be noticed, especially if it is struck and then thousands of regular cents are dumped on top of it.&nbsp; If they use a riddler on the coins after they are struck, you have to hope that it will catch it.&nbsp; There are really too many coins being produced to hope that a visual inspection by a human will spot it.&nbsp; Today with computer controlled visual inspection techniques you could probably catch it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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