i'm curious about whether: 1. There are more than two reported examples? 2. Anyone has ever researched if there is a connection between the owners of the two dimes and anyone who worked at the San Francisco mint? 3. There are more than two theories for their existence (die without S and the error caught with only two - or more - escaping, or a mint employee's shenanigans). Steve
1. Still just two known 2. Probably not the first was discovered in the late 70's the second only showed up about 10 years ago. Not owned by the same people and both in OGP, at least when discovered. 3. Almost certainly error die and quickly discovered. They probably tried to recover the one that had been struck a missed a couple. Not likely employee shenanigans because they couldn't have arranged the error die, and if they let the coins go through to packaging there was probably no way they could control where the sets went. So no way they could benefit.
