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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2299534, member: 19065&quot;]Heritage sent out a hilarious article in their Coin News e-newsletter today about this piece:</p><p><br /></p><p>By Stewart Huckaby</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://click.ems.ha.com/?qs=150f804f4eaac38df955e765b6583d7fe58b5ab1573d1bc3605a2111c2165153273e8400b8097128" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://click.ems.ha.com/?qs=150f804f4eaac38df955e765b6583d7fe58b5ab1573d1bc3605a2111c2165153273e8400b8097128" rel="nofollow">Lot 3496</a> in our upcoming <a href="http://click.ems.ha.com/?qs=150f804f4eaac38dc053523cde5c45d371966be83bd806df584ec3063c68fc367bc5290f62101fd6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://click.ems.ha.com/?qs=150f804f4eaac38dc053523cde5c45d371966be83bd806df584ec3063c68fc367bc5290f62101fd6" rel="nofollow">January 6-11 FUN US Coins Signature Auction</a> in Tampa is one of the strangest numismatic errors that we - or for that matter any other numismatist - has ever seen. PCGS&#039;s label describes it as a No Date Mint Error dime, MS65, struck on a nail. It is immediately obvious when looking at it that it the striking dies were for a Roosevelt Dime, but many questions remain:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>How did the nail get into the Mint Machinery?</li> <li>Since a dime was struck on it, was it a 10 penny nail? (No, according to the description it was a 6 penny nail. Apparently the US Mint did not strike sixpence coins at the time.)</li> <li>Is MS65 a sharpness grade?</li> <li>Which side was hit by the hammer die?</li> <li>Is this piece tooled?</li> <li>Would it be cleaned with nail polish?</li> <li>Is this considered hammered coinage?</li> <li>What will the nail price be?</li> <li>What will the hammer price be?</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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