1977/6 cent

acsb

ANyone have a picture of this fabrication?

Rampage

Never heard of it.

JRocco

<< <i>Never heard of it. >>



There is a really good reason for that

acsb

And what would that 'really good reason' be? I clearly said fabrication, and it DID receive a bunch of news in '78.

Eagerly awaiting your answer, oh JRocco. Shall I bow to you now?

MWallace

No pictures but here's a couple of links where it's mentioned.

LINK 1

LINK 2

lasvegasteddy

gosh link #2 made for interesting reading...thanx

JRocco

<< <i>And what would that 'really good reason' be? I clearly said fabrication, and it DID receive a bunch of news in '78.

Eagerly awaiting your answer, oh JRocco. Shall I bow to you now? >>



No, but you could apologize for being an a$$
Maybe you didn't notice the little
That is known as a wink.
Loosen up your shorts buddy.

ziggy29

<< <i>No, but you could apologize for being an a$$
Maybe you didn't notice the little
That is known as a wink.
Loosen up your shorts buddy. >>



It helps to understand netiquette a bit before exposing ignorance.

CaptHenway

<< <i>gosh link #2 made for interesting reading...thanx >>



Thank you.
TKD

CaptHenway

Short version:

In 1977 we received at Coin World what looked like a 1977/6 cent. I examined it with a microscope to try to expose it as a fake, but could not do so. For certain reasons we were still suspicious of it, so we took pictures of it and Margo Russell spoke with the Director of the Mint. The Director said that she personally would have the Mint Lab look at it, and promised Margo that the coin would be returned to us no matter what.

They got the coin. The head of the Mint Lab looked at it and declared it to be a genuine error. We ran the story and pictures. Fred Weinberg saw the story and posted a buy on them (I think he was at $100 each; not sure, might have been more).

Once Fred's offer hit the fan everybody got excited. Then we got a call from the Mint. They said that the head of the Mint Lab's assistant had returned from out of town and declared the coin to be altered. I told Margo that when the coin came back I was going to personally hand carry it out to Colorado Springs for a third opinion. A few hours later she told me that the Director of the Mint had told her sorry, we won't be returning the coin after all.

The Mint did arrest a man in Florida who confessed to having made the piece, in exchange for a suspended sentence. I had spoken with the man. He was an immigrant who had grown up in Nazi Germany before coming to America after the war. Whether he made the piece or not, I have a sneaking suspiction that when the Secret Service hauled him in he would have confessed to The Lindbergh Kidnapping if they had asked him to.

The coin is discredited. End of story.

TD

lasvegasteddy

yet more interesting read...thx tkd

richbeat

A number of years ago, COINage ran an article on the 1977/6 cent which included a photo. Unfortunately I don't remember which issue it was. I recall that it was a good looking fake.