Hey gang! I sold this coin about a month ago but I wanted to post the piece here before I nuked the pictures. This coin is just one planchet by weight and not a bonded piece. What a wonderful coin!
Interesting! Stupid question, but how did that get out of the mint. It had to be in a bag since it would not get through a roller.
back in the 80s, the coins would have been bagged at the Mint. This kind of coin would most likely have been found in a bag. I used to find some neat stuff that way but that came to an end in the late 1990s when the Mint stopped bagging the coins to be distributed. Thanks, Bill
I still think you could buy bags from yje mint I though that you still could order mint bags from the mint . I went there and it seemd that they are offering bags not face value of course they have to make money some way. i saw bags of statehood quaters a 100 coin bags selling for 13 to 14 dollars over face value. I still think you couild buy bags from the mint. Frankie Boy
Here's some of what they have at the mint. http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wc...storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&identifier=7010
In a way those bags the mint sells now are an homage to "the good ole days". These days they come boxed and rolled. It used to be that they would come in large cloth bags and it was up to the bank to roll them. I cant tell you how many original mint sewn bags I have destroyed over the years. A bunch...
Those little collector bags are not what i am referring to. They used to do bags of 5000 cents for example, as a part of normal business. SBA Dollar coins, for example came in bags of 2000 coins each. The Mint used to bag and deliver the coinage to the Federal Reserve. It has not been done that way since about 1999. The coins are, since 1999 or so shipped to counting companies in huge ballistic bags weighed by the tonnage. The counting companies use wrappers, (usually printed by String in Harrisburg, PA) to wrap and box the coins. The counting companies ship them to the Federal Reserve. The little collector bags are a joke. They used to sell, at a premium, "rare" Kennedy halves. Minted between 2002 and today, they make about 2,000,000 P and 2,000,000 D Mint halves that are not for regular circulation. They sold them at a premium. I find them in boxes of halves all the time. They are not rare and I suspect that the Mint sent their surplus to the counting companies to be mixed with the other halves. Thanks, Bill
Thanks for posting the picture What is really amazing and rare is that the coin did not completely disintegrate prior to falling off the die. Good looking caps like yours are rare as hen's teeth. I trust that you sold it for a bunch of money. Is it out of line to ask how much it sold for?
The revival of this post made me realize how much I missed this coin... so I went out and bought another one this evening... pics next week!!
Great coin Matt! They do, and I don't believe the slabs are any different, but I could be wrong about that. 1996 1C Lincoln Cent--Deep Die Cap Obverse--MS64 Red PCGS. A struck cent (not the present piece) failed to eject from the d... Errors
Glad I could help bring your post back to life...and that you got another one..looking forward to the pics...Michelle
