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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 461048, member: 4552"]Inreality the Mint, like all of our government, is out to make as much money as possible. Send a government employee to jail? Yeah, maybe, but when did anyone ever hear of a Mint employee going to jail, getting fined, fired from the job? The true story is there is a agency in the Mint dedicated to create, distribute, notify the public of potential errors. This is the MESS department. Noted as the <b>M</b>int <b>E</b>rror <b>S</b>ecret <b>S</b>ervice. </p><p>Haven't you ever wondered how it is possible for the slightest errors in a coin to be so readily found. Those little tiny things that 99% of the population would never notice unless they were informed. Example is the 1970S Lincoln Cent, large and small date. The MESS department was probably awarded a medal for that one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 461048, member: 4552"]Inreality the Mint, like all of our government, is out to make as much money as possible. Send a government employee to jail? Yeah, maybe, but when did anyone ever hear of a Mint employee going to jail, getting fined, fired from the job? The true story is there is a agency in the Mint dedicated to create, distribute, notify the public of potential errors. This is the MESS department. Noted as the [B]M[/B]int [B]E[/B]rror [B]S[/B]ecret [B]S[/B]ervice. Haven't you ever wondered how it is possible for the slightest errors in a coin to be so readily found. Those little tiny things that 99% of the population would never notice unless they were informed. Example is the 1970S Lincoln Cent, large and small date. The MESS department was probably awarded a medal for that one.[/QUOTE]
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