Post a coin, token, or medal with a "Mechanical Error"

MWallace · August 29, 2025 4:14PM

I'm not looking for a "Mechanical Error" on the label but the Coin, Token, or Medal itself.

"SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOOT"

As opposed to "SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT"

dcarr · August 30, 2025 3:28PM

I made one, although the archaic form of FORTY ("FOURTY") is not entirely ureasonable:

TrickleCharge · August 30, 2025 4:26PM

I don't have one, but @PeakRarities beaver came to mind. I was unaware until his post that O.T. for Oregon Territory was mistakenly struck as T.O.

PerryHall · August 30, 2025 4:29PM

I don't have a pic but on the 1838 "AM I NOT A WOMAN & SISTER" hard times token, the word "UNITED" has the N backwards.

jmlanzaf · August 30, 2025 4:56PM

That's time PCGS version of a "mechanical error" which,, for some reason, means "human error".

dcarr · August 30, 2025 5:25PM

Apollo 11 (1969) was a difficult time at the Lombardo Mint in Canada.

"I" and "N" swapped positions "UINTED":

They tried to fix it, but the "N" came out backards - DOH! :

Finally got it right, but the evidence remains (die repair):

JBK · August 30, 2025 5:39PM

@dcarr said:
Apollo 11 (1969) was a difficult time at the Lombardo Mint in Canada.

"I" and "N" swapped positions "UINTED":

They tried to fix it, but the "N" came out backards - DOH! :

Finally got it right, but the evidence remains (die repair):

From a minter's perspective, would you have made a new die, or tried to doctor the mistaken one?

Maybe the Lombardo Mint was hand-engraving their dies and that would have been too much work?

dcarr · August 30, 2025 5:44PM

@JBK said:

@dcarr said:
Apollo 11 (1969) was a difficult time at the Lombardo Mint in Canada.

"I" and "N" swapped positions "UINTED":

They tried to fix it, but the "N" came out backards - DOH! :

Finally got it right, but the evidence remains (die repair):

From a minter's perspective, would you have made a new die, or tried to doctor the mistaken one?

Maybe the Lombardo Mint was hand-engraving their dies and that would have been too much work?

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I would engrave a new die. But I have an efficient die-making process. The Lombardo dies do not look hand-engraved. I think they used a large model and a reduction lathe. But making a die that way can can still be more work than repairing an existing die.

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dcarr · August 30, 2025 5:53PM

This is a nice medal, made by Medallic Art Company. The obverse has "THE WORLDS LARGEST AMATEUR RODEO - BUSH COLORADO / JULY 2,3,4, 1976". The reverse is a generic Bicentennial stock die (off-the-shelf).

Only one problem - the name of the town is "BRUSH", not "BUSH". Oops !!

I believe that 100 of these medals were minted in bronze. They were probably minted for the town and rodeo, but they were rejected due to the mistake. There probably wasn't enough time to make replacements in time for the event. So no medals or tokens were issued at all, and the error medals were likely put into storage and forgotten. . Many years later 90 of the error medals turned up on Etsy of all places. I bought the group, and I still have quite a few.