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Re: Indian head cent purchase

@Morgan13 said:
@Acarroll
I manage a few crews. Let's put it that way to stay modest.

I'd rather run equipment than other people.

Acarroll

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Re: 1776-2026 Pennies

@jmlanzaf said:

@scotty1419 said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@scotty1419 said:
It would have been so cool if they did something like Omegas with a 10-40k run and just randomly distributed them Willy Wonka style.

Would have been such an easy way to celebrate the new design and get a ton of free publicity.

The only way it would work is if they spent a lot of money on publicity. Otherwise, who but is would even know to look? And they already have our attention.

If they just mix them in circulation and throw a press release out, the media would cover the rest. No need for advertising.

They could even just throw a page up on the Mint site: "We're releasing 10,000 of these ULTRA rare pennies around the country. Here's what they look like. RAREST CENT EVER MINTED! If they added a forum for reporting finds etc, it'd even draw up further interest. Some basic website work...

Some extra logistics for distribution would be all required. And if they went more low key with announcements, it would probably even drive up the curiosity.

They aren't making cents, what are they mixing them with?

And the post office did this with the inverted Jenny maybe 10 years ago. It was a disaster. No one but us stamp geeks when knew they were at the post office despite the fact that they were a 5 figure find.

What you describe on the stamp side is a communications failure. Again, some strategic press and marketing for very low cost could alleviate that. Government is not known for saavy communications though...

We're talking a hypothetical 'wouldn't it be nice if' scenario.

Debating this is like watching a ghost movie and arguing how the ghosts can't eat food (instead of the existence of ghosts altogether).