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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1336437, member: 31533"]It is going to be interesting if this turns out to be a verified error. There's only one midnight madness at the mint scenario I can think of where it could conceivably have been done where not only that coin or others like it could have been minted and taken out of the mint without discovery and sacking of the employee who did it. 1) It's the during the last run of 1958 and the mint has previously let all its employees know that due to the concerns of not having ANY chance of any cents minted in 1959 having a wheat reverse or (even worse) having an old 1958 accidentally used the next year with a memorial reverse, that all dies would be removed and destroyed immediately after final use in 1958. 2) Some employee used some thin sided tool or utensil and made the cuts in the die while the die was in the machine - maybe all it took was pressure against the die and this could possibly account for the even-ness of the marks. 3) Said employee managed to coin a couple, maybe, before shutting off the machine and removing the die so it could be destroyed with all the others. 4) Said employee kept one or more samples of his handiwork.[/QUOTE]