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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 2610111, member: 73165&quot;]While I&#039;m not terribly surprised that the coin came from a high volume bullion dealer, I seriously doubt they could &quot;special order&quot; something like this.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know offhand, but it might violate some kind of law for the Mint to make one of these officially.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Totally agree.&nbsp; This situation practically cries out for an application of Hanlon&#039;s Razor.&nbsp; Occam&#039;s Razor also applies, since the simplest explanation is that it happened by accident.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wrong... rationally deducing that it was intentionally made, or some kind of error was made (possibly due to unusual circumstances at the Mint).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>From a pure Bayesian point of view, taking into account the total mintage of Buffalo $1 coins and the fact that only one of these things has surfaced, this is almost surely at most a probability 1 in 100,000 event.&nbsp; I could believe such a thing could happen once and just happened to be detected.&nbsp; If a second one surfaces, I would be much more suspect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s put it this way: I have much more confidence this was a true error than the 1959-D wheat cent was. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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