What ever happened to the 1999 w Washington commem on dime error?

Rob790

I was wondering if anyone had any information on this coin?



Auction was October 2, 2000 and no more info on this coin was heard of.

Auction Link

The auction records show that it was not sold but was it withdrawn from auction, did not meet it's reserve or was it nabbed by the feds?

Does anyone here know any more about this amazing error or this auction?

jmcu12

Wow - I had not see that before. But wouldn't that almost be 100% helped out of the mint?

I wonder if it was confiscated?

morgansforever

Now that is a bad a$$ error. Right up there with the IHC struck on a gold planchet, well sorta.
Uber cool and willing to bet it would bring stupid money.

djm

Why do people refer to these as errors? They are on purposes! They are made by mint employess to sell at ridiculous prices to ogment their government paychecks.

TwoSides2aCoin

<< <i>Why do people refer to these as errors? They are on purposes! They are made by mint employess to sell at ridiculous prices to ogment their government paychecks. >>



So every coin ever struck on the wrong planchet was criminal mischief by government employees and the PEOPLE are paying for it ? You have to be kidding me.

dcarr

I wouldn't automatically assume that it is genuine.

djm

<< <i>So every coin ever struck on the wrong planchet was criminal mischief by government employees and the PEOPLE are paying for it ? You have to be kidding me. >>



Can you name three that arn't ???

TwoSides2aCoin

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<< <i>So every coin ever struck on the wrong planchet was criminal mischief by government employees and the PEOPLE are paying for it ? You have to be kidding me. >>



Can you name three that arn't ??? >>



I'm asking the question. Are you too ?

ctf_error_coins

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<< <i>So every coin ever struck on the wrong planchet was criminal mischief by government employees and the PEOPLE are paying for it ? You have to be kidding me. >>



Can you name three that arn't ??? >>



Easy, I have about 20 that had no help. Wrong planchet errors are very easy to explain and don't need the help of mint employees.

CaptHenway

<< <i>I wouldn't automatically assume that it is genuine. >>



The strike does seem unusually nice, but could the fact that it was essentially struck without a collar account for that? Think about the 1945-P dimes that have full bands that were broadstruck.

As to whether the piece had help getting into the press and out of the Mint, I couldn't say.

Rob790

Well, looking a little further, I found this old link.

Old Auction Link

Seems that it and the item right under it (1999 MARTHA WASHINGTON CENT TRIAL STRIKE) were both withdrawn.

I wonder why the 1999 Washington Commem was withdrawn?

Rob790

<< <i>I wouldn't automatically assume that it is genuine. >>



Why not?

It was graded by PCGS and at one point shown to a mint employee at a show who didn't deny it's authenticity. Maybe he later came and seized it? It is after all a West Point Mint item and security is super tight there due to the all the precious metals there. So who knows how it got out? Most likely possibility seems to me to be that it was shipped out in a regular issue box.

I think there has to be more than this single specimen out there.