Welcome to my 57,000 likes celebration thread! Thanks to @Collecting Nut for that needed like Today I want to share a Mint Error that I had shown back in June of 2015. With an interesting response from Error expert Mike Diamond..
That’s a neat and difficult error to find. Very interesting indeed. And your welcome for that like that put you at 57,000. You deserve it Paddy!
Congrats on the Likes Ed. As for your posted coin. The question that always comes to my mind, is when a coin, error, other than the normal size and shape, is in the public, how did it get there? When blanks are made, they pass over a screen and only the correct size blanks should pass through. Then, at the mint, those now planchets, pass over a riddler to weed out any that are not the correct size. After the coin has been minted, it passes through yet another riddler to weed out errors. So, how do the errors in the public make it out? Did they simply "slip" by those steps? Or can we assume they mostly had help?
Congradulations on the likes. I too have wondered how an error not correct in size and shape make it into circulation. It must just be a certain percentage are checked or something. The ASE that had the incorrect reverse I've often thought the inspectors just never thought they needed to look for this. It was not discovered by the mint initially, but a collector.
