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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rob Woodside, post: 4941179, member: 96187&quot;]CLIPPED FROM</p><p><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-ottawa-journal/1188/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-ottawa-journal/1188/" rel="nofollow">The Ottawa Journal</a></p><p><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-ottawa-journal/1188/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-ottawa-journal/1188/" rel="nofollow">Ottawa, Ontario, Canada</a></p><p>29 Sep 1970, Tue&nbsp; •&nbsp; Page 17</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;SMALL BUT VITAL COG&#039;: Sentenced to Year On Mint Coin Deal </p><p>By PHIL MEERE</p><p><br /></p><p>An employee who for&quot; three years breached Royal Mint security by striking &#039;&#039;coin oddities&quot; for an &quot;Irreputable dealer,&quot; was , sentenced Monday to a 12-month jail term. Frederick Prieber- 29, of ; 99 Goulburn Street, described by Judge T. . R. Swabey , as , a &quot;small but vital cog in a scheme to reap high profits,&quot; admitted producing more than 2,400 of -the valuable oddities. He said he easily took them from the mint and was paid $2,400 for the job. &#039; - &quot;He was tempted by promises of luxuries&quot; which never materialized, said., the judge. , No&#039; estimate has been made of how high the resale profit was to the dealer. The dealer has not - been charged but RCMP have not concluded their Investigation of &#039; the scheme..&#039; . Priebe had been liable to a maximum 14-year sentence for &quot;breach of &#039;trust&quot;,; and a maximum five &#039; years for illegally taking coins from the Sussex Drive mint.</p><p>Crown Attorney Colin Mc-Kinnon, who described the crime as &quot;more serious than any ordinary criminal could commit&quot; because Priebe was a respected member of the community, asked for a deterrent sentence. Priebe&#039;s defence counsel, argued the accused had &quot;already paid dearly lor flu indiscretion&quot; by losing his job and through the publicity the case has received </p><p>A press operator for seven years at the Sussex Drive mint, Priebe was charged with &quot;breach of trust,&quot; between January 1967 and March, 1970, in defacing genuine Canadian silver, nlckle and copper&nbsp; coins; restriklng British coins; and striking impressions on unmarked gold and silver discs. An additional charge, relating to the period between January, 1969, and February 1970, charged Priebe with Illegally taking, money from , the rnint. The charges were &#039; laid in March by Sgt, G. W. Black following what Judge Swabey termed &quot;diligent&quot; investigation by RCMP into the affairs of various coin dealers handling &quot;variety&quot; coinage. After a preliminary hearing, proceedings of which could not be published at the time, Priebe pleaded guilty Sept. 15. </p><p>The preliminary was told about 2,400 copper pennies had been double-struck by Priebe and that he had sold most to an Ottawa dealer for 50 cents each.</p><p>He also struck gold&quot; blanks with dollar faces and re-pressed nlckles, dimes, half-dollars and dollars, selling them for from $10 to $15 each.&#039;. The British coins, blanks and bigger Canadian pieces - were supplied by the dealer. Court was told Priebe was &quot;highly regarded by his employer&quot; and that he has a wife and young child,&quot; A heart ailment suffered by his child was a source of financial drain - on Priebe, the court was told, , &#039; Priebe had earned $7,200 per year before he resigned the job.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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