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<p>[QUOTE="ldhair, post: 3718304, member: 11540"]In the early days, the worker could stick a coin inside a dead rat and throw it out the window. The worker would pick it up at the end of the day. The mint said this so it must be true.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>At one point, maybe about 1970, a worker put coins in the oil pans of forklifts. He would collect them when the lifts went out of the mint for service. Not a bad plan but they were proofs. The proofs started showing up in the slot machines in Vegas before the mint ever sent any out to the public. Busted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of error coins made it out of the mint in cloth mint bags. Today, they leave the mint in large bags that take a forklift to move around. These bags go to someone like Brinks. They roll the coins and supply the banks with what they need.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ldhair, post: 3718304, member: 11540"]In the early days, the worker could stick a coin inside a dead rat and throw it out the window. The worker would pick it up at the end of the day. The mint said this so it must be true.;) At one point, maybe about 1970, a worker put coins in the oil pans of forklifts. He would collect them when the lifts went out of the mint for service. Not a bad plan but they were proofs. The proofs started showing up in the slot machines in Vegas before the mint ever sent any out to the public. Busted. Lots of error coins made it out of the mint in cloth mint bags. Today, they leave the mint in large bags that take a forklift to move around. These bags go to someone like Brinks. They roll the coins and supply the banks with what they need.[/QUOTE]
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