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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BR549, post: 974490, member: 7110&quot;]This will not directly answer your question, but it&#039;s along the lines of obtaing and legal ownership of errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before the advent of the Schuler horizontal stroke coin presses, it was uncommon to have partial strikes on feeder fingers. The coin feeders would get tangled up over the coining chamber and get either the obverse (more common) die imparted or even both the reverse and obverse struck onto a piece of what first appeared to be scrap metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are very legal to own because those errors slipped by the QC and were introduced into the normal channels of circulation. Errors can still get past the Riddler and the electronic eyes, but it is hard to determine when Midnight Minting was employed when anomalies like this come onto the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if a Mint employee was trouble shooting a malfunction and finds a piece of non-coin metal stamped with any coin die, it must be surrendered for scrap. If they sell it for profit, say to an undercover&nbsp; agent, yes, the US Treasury will prosecute.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://minterrornews.com/priceguidefeederfingerstrikes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://minterrornews.com/priceguidefeederfingerstrikes.html" rel="nofollow">http://minterrornews.com/priceguidefeederfingerstrikes.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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