Question about Morgan mint errors

Members here in about 2016 +/- may remember the infamous "Grease monkey" and I suspect what others were going to say grease causes it so its an mint effect, but what was determined then and is probably still happening is that the greasing was due to a human with a grease gun and thus was not a mint error, but was a mint worker's error who shot too much grease into the machine. I must agree with others who feel it is not a minting error, it was a human error. I have never claimed one myself and do not have any in my collection. Just in my opinion. Jim

 

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This is fun. I count 10 words

 

That’s a stretch

 

Bingo. Best answer

 

Ok. What do they call an In God We Rust coin. I agree with you but we might be the only ones

 

I call mine just plain old "Rusty" for short.

 

I still consider its a human error- the human running around putting excess grease in the machine with his/her superduper grease squirter .

Why is it popular.....due to many not finding any real coin making errors. Human errors are always common. IMO

 

A human error is still a mint error. Some are just not that special, like grease. What about letting a screw or bits of plastic get into the coin press? Or not noticing when the blanking machine bangs off the end of the sheet or nobody noticed something is out of alignment? You really start stretching the definition when you start trying to say it's a true "mint error" because a human didn't cause it. People pay attention when somebody gives something a catchy moniker like "In God We Rust" or the Bugs Bunny halves or the Spiked Eagle or whatever. The TPGs don't make that stuff up, collectors do.

Here's a greaser I found and kept because I think it looks cool. A TPG would probably designate it just to say what it is, because that's what it is. I wouldn't pay them to call it an error, because I don't care, I know what it is. Maybe somebody else would really want that on the slab.

 

Maybe. The wreath looks very flat at around 7:00. Possibly a struck through grease error.

When you have it in hand, I'd love to see a closeup photo.

 

This. Do we require proof of divine intervention?

 

Oh I will. My microscope takes fine photos, my macro photos are horrible though. I just wish it would zoom out to full photo. I'm still researching good full coin photo cams that don't cost a fortune.

 

I have thought about good zoom tech before, I would rather buy coins.

 

Dial up the in hand photos, on CT your Photograghy goes a long ways.

 

"In theory" We are talking about MY photos.

Got it in today. Tried different lighting, flash vs no flash, etc. The reverse @ 7 oclock looks obfuscated to me, from the wreath as well down into the denticles. Here tis.

 

Without microscope magnification, I also see horizontal die scratches in the wreath bow. But this isn't about VAMs.

 

So........it seems no one wants to venture a guess on what happened with this coin. Did Charley scare everyone off?

 

There is definitely a weakness in the area. Not sure if there is enough for them to say struck thru.