2000-P Sacabuck/Quarter mule to be sold...
BackroadJunkie
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Coinnews is reporting Stack’s Bowers Galleries will be auctioning one of the seventeen known Sacabuck/Quarter mules. The first one went for $29,900.
coinnews.net:Stacks Bowers to Auction Sacagawea Dollar / Washington Quarter Mule Error
It's worth mentioning because Fred Weinberg is again, the expert of choice. 
Are these still worth $250K?
According to leading error coin expert Fred Weinberg, around 1998 or 1999, the Mint instituted an Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule requiring employees in specific roles be rotated into other positions on a periodic basis, adding to the potential for confusion in the Die Room. Sometime in spring 2000, a coin press operator requested an obverse die for the new Sacagawea dollar from the Die Room and was given instead an obverse die for a quarter.
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So these were actually legit errors and not a midnight mischief coin...
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I have always checked Sacagawea's I get in change and from the Post Office.... Obviously I have not found one....However, hope springs eternal....and maybe I will pick up a roll of dollars at the bank this week...The thing is with the Sacs and prezzies etc and all the quarters, most people do not take note of coin designs beyond size an general appearance.... so, there could be some out there....
Cheers, RickO
These are very desirable.
I'd love to own one of the 17 known, 12 of which are owned by one collector.
I think there are three 2000 $1.25 mule die pairings known to exist.
2010 article
http://www.coinnews.net/2010/09/10/2000-sacagawea-mule-coin-tops-us-mint-errors/
I'd love to find one!
BHNC #203
I recall passing on these when they 1st appeared thinking they would get confiscated. Wrong again.......
There is still time. Didn’t it take the feds a decade or two to declare the 1933 double eagles illegal?
Is Tommy looking for more?
I lost interest after the Langbord decision. If it says United States on it, it’s confiscatable. Right ? I mean, if it wasn’t supposed to be, it ought not be.
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The Langbord fiasco was, and is, nothing more than heavy handed government bureaucracy insisting they are correct and don't argue with authority. There was zero evidence of theft and clearly possible avenues of honest acquisition. Cheers, RickO
The Treasury Dept. declared at least 15 years ago,
and it was printed in Coin World, that they have
no interest, and will not, confiscate any of these
Sac. Mules.
I have no concern about this whatsoever, and
I've handled the majority of them.