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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1172981, member: 19423&quot;]Coins are struck on incorrect planchets regularly, even today.&nbsp; So although unlikely, it&#039;s possible a big bin of $2.5 gold planchets was used up and one was left in the bottom and went unnoticed... then later, the same bin was used for cent planchets where the gold got mixed in and eventually struck.&nbsp; Seems hard to imagine it made it further than that without someone seeing the gold stand out, but in a big bin of bright red copper, gold isn&#039;t super easy to spot unless you&#039;re really looking.&nbsp; So when you consider tens of millions of these cents were struck, it&#039;s not crazy to think a few of these errors escaped unnoticed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>However, when looking the 1900 dated examples, they are generally believed to be the experiments (apparently unauthorized) of a Mint employee.&nbsp; I think there are three known 1900 gold Indian Cents (all other dates of these are one of a kind).&nbsp; There are also a few 1900 dated silver Indian Cents struck on Barber Dime planchets, some struck off-center that make cool error coins.&nbsp; I believe it was confirmed by Rick Snow that the 1900 dated silver IHC errors were from the same dime pair and in the same die state as the 1900 dated gold IHC coins, adding strength to the theory that they were created not by accident, but instead were created by an employee at or about the same time.&nbsp; This would also explain how that 1900 gold got out of the Mint in such high grade.&nbsp; Regardless, it&#039;s still pretty sweet![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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