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Message:: [QUOTE="Rob Woodside, post: 4956419, member: 96187"]I'm looking for the court documents and I'll bet there's no mention of these silver dollars. I suspect the Mint swpt it under the carpet as it would have been a horrendous task to recover the few thousand made. There must be internal Mint documents that thoroughly investigated this. Perhaps they could be liberated with a freedom of information request? Then there are the coin journals of the CNA and ONA. They must have articles on these, but I don't have access. I think if only a dozen or so coins are made with errors, they might just disappear into circulation. I always thought it remarkable that they found the 1936 dots. The problem is there are lots of error coins, most totally insignificant. It requires enough coins discovered with a significant visible error to generate a recognized variety. If these guys were smart, and they might have been, they would have shepparded the error coins through quality control and sent them in a bulk order to a coin dealer, possibly innocent or a confederate on the outside. This would ensure their discovery. An inconspicuous order for a couple of thousand coins could slip through, where as a metal detector might find an emplyee leaving with a dozen coins. Who knows, but you are right that greed did them in. Still a voyageur in gold would have been a pretty thing.[/QUOTE]