Interesting - US Dies Sent To Canada - Lost - Found - No Thankyou

1630Boston

This is interesting, from 1987
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Roger Boye's weekly numismatic column, as published in the Chicago Tribune, September 27, 1987.
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Zoins

Great article.

Here are some articles on Ingrid K. Smith:

http://canadiancoin.com/ingrid/ingrid3.htm

https://coinweek.com/coin-shows/world-coin-shows-fun-times-june-2016-torex/

GoldenEgg

I remember reading about these missing dies, and I always wondered whether they had been found.

I didn’t realize any had been recovered! What happened to the other 43?

ricko

Interesting...Is there a list identifying the missing dies?... If one turned up at a coin show, then the others are certainly 'available' somewhere and were not appropriated by an alien 'transporter' beam....Cheers, RickO

Sweetpie

Interesting article indeed.

Also liked your cliffnote title.

Jimnight

Nice article!

coinsarefun

Very interesting, thanks for posting

Treashunt

Thanks for posting

johnny9434

a good read, many thanks

CaptHenway

I worked with Ingrid for a year at ANACS. Nice lady.

1630Boston

@CaptHenway said:
I worked with Ingrid for a year at ANACS. Nice lady.

Seems like she would have been trustworthy, and cared about getting the die out of the wrong peoples hands.
thanks for your post
boston

CaptHenway

I don't think that the U.S. Treasury ever did thank her for doing this.

A personal story Ingrid once told a few of us over lunch. In the early Spring of 1945 she was living in southern Germany with her mother and her three younger siblings. She was about 8. Her father was off in the army somewhere. There was zero food in the house and they were starving to death.

Her mother sent her and her next younger sister off into the woods with the basket to look for berries or anything edible. While they were out there they suddenly encountered a U.S. soldier, rifle in hand, his face darkened with camouflage paint. They froze, expecting to die. The GI very slowly reached into his pocket and took out a Hershey bar. He slowly put it down on a rock and backed away and went around them. Once he was gone she picked up the bar and ran home with her sister.

Her mother looked at the bar for a long time and then cut it into five pieces. She told the children "It is probably poisoned. I will eat one piece. If I don't die within one hour, you can each have the other pieces."