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well…I suppose AI did their best to recreate this fictional error. A for effort!

(screenshot from a random Facebook post)

Looks like the steps became a ramp for Jefferson's elderly days. I'll guess 65.

@wondercoin said:
One day, some day, most of these coins will become very tough to accumulate. But, for the most part, that day isn’t today.

Just my 2 cents.

Wondercoin.

BU rolls are the canary in the modern coin coalmine.

They are reacting to demand by soaring in price. There was never a supply so the tiny demand is having a huge effect on price which is likely to drive much more demand because this is human nature and the way collectors behave. Don't get me wrong though. I don't think there's been much piling on yet because people are ignoring the soaring prices just as they ignored the coins all these years.

This is the exact same thing that has already occurred with Russian (Soviet), Chinese, and Indian coins already: A little demand crashed into no supply and prices went up many fold. Soviet and Indian mint and proof set prices went up 1000 fold in some cases. US mint and proof sets are more available BUT demand is potentially many times greater. BU rolls come from mint sets and mint sets are mostly gone.

@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.

@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).