Possibility of a reverse error on Native American Dollars?

I was CRHing dollar coins today and the possibility of a wrong reverse error on the Native American Dollars occurred to me; i.e. a 2010 reverse with some other year in the edge lettering.

Does anyone have an opinion on the likelihood or not of that occurring? I've not heard of one found, but I don't think very many of us are searching dollars. Since I’m going through them anyway I’m going to start looking for it now.

 

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Though not impossible, it is still highly unlikely that this would occur. Since coins like the half, Prez & Native American are not in great demand for circulation, it doesn't seem plausible that production would continue late into the year (December?) where such a mix-up might occur, and dies for the Prez & NA edge lettering have probably long since been destroyed.

Chris

 

I haven't heard of it with the NA dollar but there was one issue of the President dollar where some had the wrong date edge lettering.

 

That is a reasonable idea cpm9ball, that they may finish Native American Dollar production early in the year. I don’t know how the mint schedules its production though. I doubt that they run full-tilt minting everything they can from January until they finish and then lay a bunch of people off for the last part of the year to rehire them again the next January – I’d think it more likely that they would schedule their production to be even throughout the year.

If they do spread it out across the year and one year’s production is close enough to the next years’ I’m thinking that it would be likely for this to happen eventually because the obverse/reverse strikes happen separately from the edge lettering. After going through a 2012 obverse/reverse die set, maybe a coin could be stuck in the hopper or something and not go through the edge-incused lettering process until a load of 2013 planchets gets dumped on it and knocks it loose. I don’t really know how the machine feeds though, so I don’t know if that sounds plausible or just silly.

 

I doubt that they lay employees off between production runs. Keep in mind that proof sets, mint sets and commems take up other periods of the year and are released at later dates.

Chris