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I Wonder What Happens at the Mint When New Errors/Varieties Get Out

I can imagine the scene. Director of the mint with a new paper article. Ops, what's happening here? How did these get out without edge letterring?

We'll ma'am, the machine spits 1.37% of the coins onto the floor. To review each will mean over 4 million coins reviewed at 4 seconds each, costing 1/4 million man hours. We can't afford this. We need to shovel them up and throw them in the pre or post edge letter hopper.

Well unlettered ones are getting out. Throw them in the pre-hopper.

Next Week... Director of the mint with a new paper article. Ops, what's happening here? How did these get out with double edge letterring?

We'll ma'am, the machine spits 1.37% of the coins onto the floor. To review each will mean over 4 million coins reviewed at 4 seconds each, costing 1/4 million man hours. We can't afford this. We need to shovel them up and throw them in the pre or post edge letter hopper. You told us to throw them in the pre-hopper. So some of them are getting lettered twice.
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  • ttownttown Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭
    I'm not sure they really care. The new dollars have gotton a lot of pub lately due to the error. A smart marketing ploy would be to salt the batch of billions of dollars to grow interest in the coin.image
  • pb2ypb2y Posts: 1,461
    It is the same blunder as the other two $1 coins--to much like quarters.
    Congress lacks the balls to eliminate the $1 bill.
    They will dump the problem on 9 people in black robes.
    We will all be using $1 coins very soon.
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd imagine that someone at the Mint lines his/her pockets when errors get out...just my warm fuzzies about the realities of human nature.
  • pb2ypb2y Posts: 1,461
    A major reason why San Francisco is no longer minting business coins.
    And conversely why Ford closed it's assembly plants in CA.
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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    makes me think if an not unspoken ploy then someone may not be punching the clock due to other goverment facility he now finds himself in after tapes are reviewed and probably next applicant is called
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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