Mis Struck Luck

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Wow, you have abunch! Love that 1999 Jefferson in the first post

 

Awesome coins. Really like the quarter. Thank you for sharing.

 

Very nice. Thank you for contributing to the thread Nice Wheatie.!

 

Nice penny it's beautiful. Thanks for adding to the thread.

 

Thank you. That nickel is pretty wild and one of my favorites.

 

The photo doesn't do it justice. Hard to capture some of these beauties on film.

 

Nice photo too! It looks flawless, but I am no expert

 

I have abunch more of really nice misstruck nickels. I will add them to the thread this weekend.

 

Welcome and nice photos. Thanks for sharing. Plans on having them slabbed?

 

I often wonder how some of these error coins get by the mint. Some of the ones shown here are awesome.

 

I am a novice collector (resuming collecting from decades ago ) with my 14 year old son. I have never slabbed a coin yet, but have several free coupons with PCGS,(recently joined their too) So I am totally up to taking suggestions on which coins to slab. I will leave that to the CT community to decide
Please make a suggestion on which coins you think are worthy. Thank you for participating.

 

I wonder the same thing. It would have to be Mint employees smuggling them out LOL. I cannot blame them. I know I would be tempted

 

I would imagine there has to be a defect drop box (for lack of a better word) in the process for disgarding the rejects. Mint policy is probably to destroy them, but somehow a few make it out . I am positive someone in this community understands the process and knows the answer I am just assuming. Thanks for posting.

 

Thank you. I think they are awesome too.

 

You have inspired me to delve more deeply into the actual minting process. I have been reading up on and watching videos on this topic. This better understanding on how the machines actually work within the process has lead me to appreciate these coins even more. Thank you.

 

* Sadly I haven't had the time to look many of these over so If anyone spots any additional errors please post them. Thank you.

 

I know that during any type of processing, that errors can occur, but when you are dealing with coins and currency, security should be heightened so that employees don't take coins that have been shown. My opinion is that all of those "coins" (I call them coins, but in actuality, the coins belong to the U.S. Mint and employees that take them from the Mint are thieves. All though the errors have gotten into the hands of coin collectors, if the Mint wanted to, the holder of these errors can be charged with "receiving stolen goods." I know it's fun and interesting, but collecting coins that are damaged, to me, is not coin collecting and should not be treated as such.

 

Thanks for your input Jim.