I was looking at mint numbers for lincoln cents when I saw this, and it did not make sense to me. It just didn't seem right, so I look at some other resourses and found it was wrong. This is from my 2017 6"x8¼" hard cover Red Book. I found it should read as 684,628,670. Not really a big deal, but it will mess with a new collector that does not reallize Philly usually has the highest production numbers. Thanks for taking a moment to read.
You see, @alurid , it's like this. As the armored truck was leaving the Mint, it had a blowout on the highway. It started to swerve and the weight of all those pennies caused the truck to roll over and over. It ended up in the Susquehanna River, and they were only able to recover 84,628,670 pennies. Chris
Well, that's how many of the recovered coins they have counted so far..... LOL, sorry, just couldn't resist.
I could probably find someone that would believe the story (people are gullible), you find the truck. (On the other hand some of those strip mining coal drump trucks just might be able to handle the job. Nope checked they would have to make four trips.)
Values on the 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter were wrong in the 2016 "Big Book" edition. Errors happen, they fix them.
Finally checked my copies of the Red Book, the 2014 67th Edition has the correct mintage of the 1943 cent but the 2015 to 2017 show the 84,628,670 number.
Yes, double confirming. My 2016 has the 84 million as well. Hm. Nice catch. Someone apparently missed that tiny 600 million or so...
Good catch. Did anyone say anything to red book? Not that it ,alters but are you the first to catch the error?
A previous thread about other misprints... https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-are-they-smoking-at-whitman-publishing.246440/
