Wood Carpenters at the US Mint - They nailed it!

So this is the crazy story I made up in my head - You see the US Mint asked some carpenters to nail some boards up on the ceiling of the minting facility for some unknown reason. As one of the guys went to reach for a single nail it dropped.... straight down into the milling press and created this


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It's always kinda bothered me that this stuff gets a numeric grade.

 

AMAZING!

 

In my opinion, PCGS hit the nail on the head!

Chris

 

badda boom!

 

That's clearly a one penny finish nail.

 

Jon sure does have some interesting stuff.

 

I'm willing to bet that this all started with two workers and one saying "bet you can't!"

 

To which the only valid response is "hold my beer..."

 

More than likely, one said ..."We can get big money from the collectors for this..I'll make it and you smuggle it out". Some day the Chinese will figure out they can make these and better, if they already haven't. Such might slip by the counterfeiting laws.

 

Followed by "NAILED IT"

 

I heard about these cents struck on nails years ago but this is the first time I've actually seen one.

 

A Penny Nail Gauge Chart!

 

and at $9,250.00 it is SUCH a deal!

 

Awww..if only they had a box of 400,I would have considered purchasing them.
Need to nail some bills to a few picture frames this weekend. .ahh well..superglue it is then.[emoji33]