http://cgi.ebay.com/Ike-Dollar-on-2...543QQihZ021QQcategoryZ524QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem This seems downright near impossible without some employee tampering. I was wondering on a different note if mint employees have ever been caught creating coins such as this for profit?
WOW, it almost looked like an IKE dollar for a second!!!... The cashier would only give me 25 cents though.
A couple of years ago, the Denver mint did a surprise check of the mint employees' lockers. They found a lot of "errors." I think a lot of spectacular errors were made by mint employees and smuggled out. Charlie
Of course, mint employees produced the five 1913 liberty head nickels without authorization. Its not an error, but mint employees do try to take advantage of their posistion.
What was that planchet originally for, anyway? Any ideas how it ended up among the normal clad dollar planchets? If it wasn't done intentionally would have to be amongst astronomical odds to happen by accident. Can see this guy is selling a lot of Ike dollar on wrong planchet errors. The Ike dollar on a dime planchet is pretty dramatic, lol, wouldn't mind owning that even though I'm not the biggest fan of errors usually. Love the Ike on the cent planchet too. The real dramatic one is the planchet that has the diamater of a quarter but the the thickness of a dime... could be that a clad sheet meant to be punched for dimes was punched for quarters, that error is known to exist but rare... and to top it off, it was then stamped with the Ike dollar dies, so you have two errors going on there. The pressure applied to that thin of a planchet actually cracked through the cladding. This guy has tons of errors and patterns... all pretty amazing, and all very expensive, lol... but it's clear if errors are your thing and money is no object you can't go wrong buying fro him, has some pretty amazing stuff.
The only thing I can think of is that it was originally for the experimental aluminum cents in 1974. however, the planchet was too biig for a cent. Hmmm....
The mints did strike foreign coins in the 70's. They struck coins for the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Peru and the Philippines. They where produced at the Philadelphia, San Francisco and West Point mints.
Was thinking that, pretty sure it had to be a planchet meant for a foreign coin, just not sure precisely which one it would be. Actually the US Mint was producing coins for foreign countries further back than that, at least back to the 1920's. I actually have a 1942 Fiji 6 pence minted at the San Francisco mint, the only foreign coin in my collection minted in the US currently, though would like to track down others, lol...
The countries that I listed where for coins produced by the mints in the 70's. Over the years the mints have produced coins for about 43 countries.
THe guy selling the coin bought a collection of many many Error Ike Dollars---some haven't been in the market for years. There are some really cool ones....Ike struck on a dime planchet....cent plachet....and much more. Speedy
Is it for sure it's a coin planchet, or might it simply be of industrial origin? Does it have upset rims? It doesn't seem to me that it does. If a circluar hole were cut in a piece of aluminum pursuant to it being affixed to something, as example, might not the waste piece look a lot like that?
Here is the link to the rest of the Ike Errors.... http://minterrornews.com/news-6-28-06-ike_off_metals.html I knew I could find it....now just make sure ya'll don't go and buy them all!!! Speedy
