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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jcuve, post: 788354, member: 13945&quot;]What a rationalization...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<i>&quot;I believe that errors occured while producing a hub or master die from a model or mabey modifying a master die afterwards may have played a role in the mark that resembles a secondary D font on this coin and by the time the mistake was discovered there were alot of coins all ready struck that needed to head for the scrap pile.</i></p><p><i>This one got away.</i></p><p><i>It looks to me like there will be very few but none the less some highly sought after and very valuable error coins that slip through the cracks and make circulation, even with the Mints new system in place.</i></p><p><i>I got this coin from a postage vending machine in California in early 2000. This was the only P or Philidelphia mint marked coin out of 3000 that I got out of&nbsp; that vending machine all the rest had Denver mint marks.</i></p><p><i>I believe that this coin became wedged in the bottom of a bin or reused mint bag, that was previously used for scrap.</i></p><p><i>The bag was then filled with fresh new Denver minted coins shipped to California and dumped into the vending machine and along with those Denvers came this major error coin.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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