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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 2376501, member: 15929"]Wow. If that's the absolute case then virtually every error coin ever produced should be confiscated since by definition, they should ever have been released.This specifically should address certain "manufactured Proof Coins" which were smuggled out of the US Mint in San Francisco since the coins them selves would have never made it through the packaging process! The coin was "given" to the recipient by the US Mint in Denver along with other error coins "not authorized for circulation" but kept around anyway. Exactly where is the line drawn between "authorized" and "unauthorized" as it seems to me that the line is intentionally "obscured" depending upon circumstance. Does the US Mint at Denver (they are the one's that gave the coin) NOT have the "authority" to issue US Coins? Is every single piece produced by "the facility" individually "authorized" for release? IMO, the US Mint at Denver has the authority to "release" certain coins to the US Public as legal tender and this particular coin along with other "non-releasable coins" (i.e. errors) was presented to a retiring employee as a "gift". Of course, folks can argue the letter of the so called law with the specific interpretation of "it should not have happened" but the fact remains that it "DID" happen and as such was completely legal under all interpretations.[/QUOTE]