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<p>[QUOTE="Breezo, post: 744133, member: 21694"]Or, Hontonai could just make statements of ignorant doubt contrary to that indeed there are in fact mules that are 25 cent obverse strikes on sacajawea planchets that have been graded by pcgs. He says sacajaweas are larger than quarters, nullifing the possibility. How absurd! Try to migrate to other websites once and a while and do a frickin google search!</p><p><br /></p><p>Several prominent mule errors have been discovered in recent times. One of the most famous is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_Dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_Dollar" rel="nofollow">Sacagawea Dollar</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Quarters" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Quarters" rel="nofollow">Washington State Quarter</a> mule featuring the obverse of a Statehood quarter and the reverse of a Sacagawea dollar. This coin was struck on a Sacagawea dollar <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet" rel="nofollow">planchet</a>. Common belief was that this coin was intentionally struck by a mint employee, however the mint confirmed in July 2000 that the coin was a legitimate error, created by the accidental replacement of a cracked Sacagawea obverse die with a Washington obverse die. Several thousand of the coins were reported to have been minted before the error was discovered, and mint employees recovered and destroyed most of them. One of the few that escaped detection was sold on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay" rel="nofollow">eBay</a> for $41,295.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Breezo, post: 744133, member: 21694"]Or, Hontonai could just make statements of ignorant doubt contrary to that indeed there are in fact mules that are 25 cent obverse strikes on sacajawea planchets that have been graded by pcgs. He says sacajaweas are larger than quarters, nullifing the possibility. How absurd! Try to migrate to other websites once and a while and do a frickin google search! Several prominent mule errors have been discovered in recent times. One of the most famous is the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_Dollar"]Sacagawea Dollar[/URL]/[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Quarters"]Washington State Quarter[/URL] mule featuring the obverse of a Statehood quarter and the reverse of a Sacagawea dollar. This coin was struck on a Sacagawea dollar [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet"]planchet[/URL]. Common belief was that this coin was intentionally struck by a mint employee, however the mint confirmed in July 2000 that the coin was a legitimate error, created by the accidental replacement of a cracked Sacagawea obverse die with a Washington obverse die. Several thousand of the coins were reported to have been minted before the error was discovered, and mint employees recovered and destroyed most of them. One of the few that escaped detection was sold on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay"]eBay[/URL] for $41,295.[/QUOTE]
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