UHR BOOK ERROR

Rooster1 · April 25, 2009 12:53AM

My book has an error from page 16 to page 17. The word MORE is used twice in a row.
Is all the others the same?

YaHa · April 25, 2009 12:56AM

No it's normal.. The author is the same person that wrote Oliver Twist.. More Please Sir... MORE? Yea sir May I have More..

BloodMan · April 25, 2009 1:20AM

...has been called the most most beautiful coin design ever created...

curly · April 25, 2009 2:13AM

Brother, mine has most printed twice.

sumnom · April 25, 2009 2:20AM

So, is it mechanical doubling or doubled die?

notwilight · April 25, 2009 2:39AM

The double word is the most difficult error for a human proofreader to find and the simplest one for the computer proofreading program to find. --Jerry

Billet7 · April 25, 2009 2:53AM

I say send it in for slabbing. That error might be worth millions in a few years!

WinLoseWin · April 25, 2009 3:48AM

<< The double word is the most difficult error for a human proofreader to find and the simplest one for the computer proofreading program to find. --Jerry >>

Are you you sure, because I never miss that error.

CaptHenway · April 25, 2009 5:40AM

Anybody find a "smoe" yet???

percyb · April 25, 2009 5:41AM

<< My book has an error from page 16 to page 17. The word MORE is used twice in a row.
Is all the others the same? >>

Double dyed?

touche · April 25, 2009 7:59AM

Are you taking offers?

ambro51 · April 25, 2009 8:03AM

Is everyones book like that?

Maybe you got the ONE that snuck by somehow...maybe that was the reason they were "bad" in the first place.

...a real rarity R9.9

PerryHall · April 25, 2009 8:33AM

An error like that is worth a lot on eBay.

NitroCruiser · April 25, 2009 10:34AM

My book is still sealed in it's shrink wrap to preserve its value.

barbershopper · April 25, 2009 1:53PM

That's no error! It took so long to put them together they reverted to the 19th century book
feature of beginning a page with the same word as the last word on the preceding page.

JT

edix2001 · April 25, 2009 2:07PM

Mine says fnord.

notwilight · April 25, 2009 2:12PM

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<< The double word is the most difficult error for a human proofreader to find and the simplest one for the computer proofreading program to find. --Jerry >>

Are you you sure, because I never miss that error. >>

I never miss it either now that Word underlines it for me. Before PCs I was told by a friend/author/editor that the double word was well known to be the most elusive, especially if one was at the end of one line and the next one at the beginning of the next line.

-Jerry

WinLoseWin · April 25, 2009 3:00PM

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<< The double word is the most difficult error for a human proofreader to find and the simplest one for the computer proofreading program to find. --Jerry >>

Are you you sure, because I never miss that error. >>

I never miss it either now that Word underlines it for me. Before PCs I was told by a friend/author/editor that the double word was well known to be the most elusive, especially if one was at the end of one line and the next one at the beginning of the next line.

-Jerry >>

I believe it.

Hope you caught the double you's in my first post. A smiley would have given it away if I used it then.

BlindedByEgo · April 25, 2009 3:24PM

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<< The double word is the most difficult error for a human proofreader to find and the simplest one for the computer proofreading program to find. --Jerry >>

Are you you sure, because I never miss that error. >>

I never miss it either now that Word underlines it for me. Before PCs I was told by a friend/author/editor that the double word was well known to be the most elusive, especially if one was at the end of one line and the next one at the beginning of the next line.

-Jerry >>

I believe it.

Hope you caught the double you's in my first post. A smiley would have given it away if I used it then.

>>

I caught it, however, my computer completely missed it.

frnklnlvr · April 25, 2009 5:27PM

There was a CW article that reported an error book. The cover was upside down in relation to the pages.

FullStrike · April 26, 2009 2:08AM

<< My book is still sealed in it's shrink wrap to preserve its value. >>

And here I thought I was the only one into Mint Books.

ambro51 · April 26, 2009 2:28AM

Many years ago I worked in a bindery...my entry level job was standing behind a folding machine 16 hours a day packing pamphlets into bundles and putting them in a box. Horrible work that paid well...anyway, IF they DARED put me on a fast machine, or a really hard job...first thing I done was proofread the bloody thing. This was back in the days before computer programs etc etc....Id say there was usually a ten percent chance Id find an error that was important enough to shut the job down while the client was contacted.

Pretty soon they made me the foreman

TwoSides2aCoin · April 26, 2009 2:29AM

I have nothing useful to add, but you men who know humor are the ones who brought me here

edix2001 · April 26, 2009 2:48AM

<< Many years ago I worked in a bindery...my entry level job was standing behind a folding machine 16 hours a day packing pamphlets into bundles and putting them in a box. Horrible work that paid well...anyway, IF they DARED put me on a fast machine, or a really hard job...first thing I done was proofread the bloody thing. This was back in the days before computer programs etc etc....Id say there was usually a ten percent chance Id find an error that was important enough to shut the job down while the client was contacted.

Pretty soon they made me the foreman

>>

Baum folder? Wearing headphones to muffle the noise?

messydesk · April 26, 2009 2:53AM

Mine seems to have been translated using some strange Hungarian-English phrase book.

ambro51 · April 26, 2009 2:54AM

hahahaha, yes old green baumfolders. Later we got new blue baumfolders which turned out to be junk. Then came the MBO's...they were a nice machine. I could make those folders "sing".

Bindery humor.....What does MBO stand for? "makes baums obsolete"

hrlaser · September 10, 2009 9:01AM

Two eBay sellers listed the UHR book alone, without the coin.. both closed the same day last week, within hours of each other..

One was sealed in the Mint's shipping carton and sold for $56.00!..

The other was not in the shipping carton, but still in original shrinkwrap and sold for $9.50.. I bought that one..

It arrived in today's mail.. off comes the shrinkwrap.. {{Bernard Herrmann suspense music}}..

Last word on page 16 is "most".. first word on page 17 is "most".. thus, it has the printing error described at the top of this thread..

The question is:: do they ALL have this error, or did the Mint catch it, correct it, and do later printings without this doubled-word error?..

Thanks..

heavymetal · September 10, 2009 9:09AM

Does this qualify you for a You Suck Award? HM

hrlaser · September 10, 2009 10:01AM

<< Does this qualify you for a You Suck Award? HM

>>

Heh.. you tell me.. if all the books have that double-word error.. no award.. if they don't.. ding!..

So c'mon, all you people with one or more copies of the book.. do yours have the printing error or not?..
I thought getting one for $9.50 within hours of someone else paying $56.00 for the exact same thing was a decent score..

mikeyg · September 10, 2009 10:44AM

<< 

<< My book is still sealed in it's shrink wrap to preserve its value. >>

And here I thought I was the only one into Mint Books.

>>

Were we supposed to actually open them??

Walmann · September 10, 2009 10:53AM

I'm starting to think its a good thing that the Mint doesn't issue a booklet with every coin they produce.

YaHa · September 10, 2009 10:53AM

<< 

<< Does this qualify you for a You Suck Award? HM

>>

Heh.. you tell me.. if all the books have that double-word error.. no award.. if they don't.. ding!..

So c'mon, all you people with one or more copies of the book.. do yours have the printing error or not?..
I thought getting one for $9.50 within hours of someone else paying $56.00 for the exact same thing was a decent score.. >>

I like your avatar.. What mint do you work at.. Come by 9th street Washington Dc and meet me at the front desk so we can chat.. George

adamlaneus · September 10, 2009 10:56AM

This poses a problem, as once you open the packaging to check the text, the Mint Book is no longer in it's original packaging. Meaning it is worthless.

The only way to get cash for an error book to have one in original, sealed packaging.

Hm.

hrlaser · September 10, 2009 11:18AM

<< 

I like your avatar.. What mint do you work at.. Come by 9th street Washington Dc and meet me at the front desk so we can chat.. George >>

I don't.. some years ago, the Mint sold US Mint Police patches on their Web site for about five bucks.. I'm not sure if they were an exact replica of the real thing or not.. the avatar is a scaled-down version of the picture they used on their site.. I bought only one, and had a friend sew it onto the shoulder of a jacket.. got a lot of double-takes at coin shows where I wore that jacket ;-) .. I wish I had bought more of those patches.. they came on a backing card with some history printed on it.. but after they stopped selling them, they never offered them again..

pitboss · September 10, 2009 12:21PM

<< Many years ago I worked in a bindery...my entry level job was standing behind a folding machine 16 hours a day packing pamphlets into bundles and putting them in a box. Horrible work that paid well...anyway, IF they DARED put me on a fast machine, or a really hard job...first thing I done was proofread the bloody thing. This was back in the days before computer programs etc etc....Id say there was usually a ten percent chance Id find an error that was important enough to shut the job down while the client was contacted.

Pretty soon they made me the foreman

>>

That sounds like me. I spent many years, from the early 60's to the late 80's, working in bookbinderies , going from one that was going under to another until all that was left was the small job shops. I guess that is the way of the world now. I think I liked the old days better.

pitboss · September 10, 2009 12:25PM

<< 

<< Many years ago I worked in a bindery...my entry level job was standing behind a folding machine 16 hours a day packing pamphlets into bundles and putting them in a box. Horrible work that paid well...anyway, IF they DARED put me on a fast machine, or a really hard job...first thing I done was proofread the bloody thing. This was back in the days before computer programs etc etc....Id say there was usually a ten percent chance Id find an error that was important enough to shut the job down while the client was contacted.

Pretty soon they made me the foreman

>>

That sounds like me. I spent many years, from the early 60's to the late 80's, working in bookbinderies , going from one that was going under to another until all that was left was the small job shops. I guess that is the way of the world now. I think I liked the old days better. >>

I ran the bigger quad folders just for you guys in the know before the MBO,s were around.

barbershopper · September 11, 2009 12:38AM

<< Two eBay sellers listed the UHR book alone, without the coin.. both closed the same day last week, within hours of each other..

One was sealed in the Mint's shipping carton and sold for $56.00!..

The other was not in the shipping carton, but still in original shrinkwrap and sold for $9.50.. I bought that one..

It arrived in today's mail.. off comes the shrinkwrap.. {{Bernard Herrmann suspense music}}..

Last word on page 16 is "most".. first word on page 17 is "most".. thus, it has the printing error described at the top of this thread..

The question is:: do they ALL have this error, or did the Mint catch it, correct it, and do later printings without this doubled-word error?..

Thanks.. >>

I'll say it again. This very well could be intentional and not an error.
Early 19th century books used this method to help the reader maintain his line of thought when going to the next page.
I'll admit, it sounds a little archaic to be doing so now but you know the US Mint; always lurking in the past.
They could have done it just to make it unusual. We'll probably never know the truth.
And yes, mine is still in the shrink wrap.

JT

hrlaser · September 13, 2009 1:16AM

Hi..

I'll get to the UHR book question (again).. shortly..

Meanwhile..

A friend and I went to the Long Beach show yesterday.. my main purpose was to use up the remaining four "free" gradings plus the "free" quarterly special left on my "Platinum" membership.. I joined in February, 2008.. they extended the membership to this November, since they discontinued the PCGS magazine.. so before we left for the show, I plowed through my slabs, found four NGCs and a SEGS to submit and use up my remaining four "free" cross-over grading.. I specified crossing at minimum, the same grades.. will post results in a different thread later, when the grades show up.. also found a gorgeous, rainbow-toned 1954 quarter a friend sent me years ago, which I used for the "free" quarterly special..

Back to the show.. I did not see ONE single dealer selling the UHR book by itself.. but I won't pretend to have looked at all of the hundreds of dealer tables.. after the long, ridiculous walk up and down a bajillion stairways from the parking lot, my back was hurting so badly, I had to pop pain-killers and sit down a lot..

I DID finally see some UHRs in the flesh.. very pretty, but being out-of-work, spending $1289.00 (unless they've raised it again).. isn't in the cards for me at this time.. but I think I was pretty lucky to score the book for under ten bucks, considering the Mint does not sell it by itself.. I didn't see a single dealer at the huge show selling the book by itself, only TWO have been listed on eBay.. they both closed within hours of each other on the same day.. one sold for $56.00, the other for $9.50.. go figure that out.. not a single UHR book by itself has been listed since.. (this link shows both eBay UHR books, and won't work if you're reading this a week or two from now)..

Link

Rather than start another thread.. just a couple other comments about some things I saw and bought there..

- we got there about 1030am and the lot under the Convention center was full.. even handicapped parking (I have a bad back and a car tag.. the girl at the booth said "full".. damn..).. so we had to park in a structure a block away, and walk to the front doors of the hall.. up and down more stairways I could count.. got lost half a dozen times.. the place must've been designed out by a sadistic architect in an asylum.. it reminded me of a tour I took long ago of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose.. stairways that lead nowhere.. you can't get there from here, even though it's right over there..

- attendance was very light for a Saturday morning.. I walked to the PCGS table, always in the same place, right inside the hall doors and to the left.. all the chairs were empty.. sat down, got out my forms and vouchers and other crap from a year and a half ago, got out my slabs and raw coin, and a very friendly rep helped me through the whole process.. looked up all the coin numbers for me.. blah blah etc. etc.. said the submission would be in their system early this week, and turnaround would be 15 business days or less.. so the way I did the form, NONE of the slabs will get down-graded.. I don't know if ANY of them will get up-graded.. I'll be satisfied if they all just cross at their same grades.. and "free"?.. Hah!.. I wrote a check for over $60.00 for return Registered mail.. an interesting definition of "free"..

- my friend forgot or lost his "you still have four free" form from last year.. so he couldn't submit anything!.. they said they'd extend his membership some more, so he'll have to do it by mail.. after he gets the replacement "you still have four free" form in the mail..

- I bought some cheap supplies, and, since he's into currency.. we stopped at a lot of paper money dealers so he could schmooze and buy some very odd-ball stuff.. which gave me a chance to sit down a lot and rest my aching back..

- one foreign currency dealer from Mexico had singles and bricks (100 notes) of currency from all over the world.. we picked up some crisp 2008 $100 TRILLION $ notes from Zimbabwe.. the highest denomination note ever issued in history, I think.. couple bucks each.. so I'm a $100 Trillionaire ;-) .. Zimbabwe demonitized the note this year, but last year, in 2008 it was worth about US$0.50.. talk about hyper-inflation!.. you couldn't buy a loaf of bread with a $100 Trillion bill!..

- I always wanted an old large-style US$1.00 bill.. found a dealer who had a bunch in different conditions.. I picked up a heavily-circulated but nice, clean one (no holes, no tears).. for $30.00.. 1923, the last year they were made before the US switched to the current, small-sized currency..

- The most single impressive, mind-boggling dealer display.. I can't remember his name.. but he lives in the same So. Calif. suburb I do.. he said he doesn't operate a store.. only sells at shows.. and he had three absolutely mind-blowing things in his cases (besides the two or three million $ worth of other PCGS slabs he had on display..)..

THE PCGS PR68 DCAM 1895 $ - population ONE, finest known, $200,000.00+.. it was the most obscenely gorgeous MorgEn DollEr I've EVER seen.. it was so perfect, it didn't look real!..

Next to that in the same case, both the round and octagonal 1915 Panama Pacific $50.00 Gold slugs.. both PCGS MS67.. half a million $ for the pair..

No idea if he owns those and the other hyper-ultra-uber expensive coins he was selling, or if they were on consignment to him.. I had to ask for a roll of paper towel to wipe the drool off his case.. ;-) ..

After a bit more trudging around, my friend had a $10.00 hot dog and Coke, and we trudged back to my car via a shorter route.. only 20 stairways to negotiate, instead of the 209380293820981 we had to climb up and down when we got lost and went in circles to get into the hall a few hours earlier..

Anyway.. I still don't know if ALL the UHR books have that "most most" double-word printing error.. if they ALL have it, then it's not a valuable error.. so I'll ask again.. does ANYONE reading this who owns the UHR book NOT have the word "most" at the bottom of page 16, and the first word in the same sentence at the top of page 17?..

Sorry for rambling..

Thanks,
Harv

adamlaneus · September 13, 2009 1:29AM

Yes, I don't have that.

hrlaser · September 13, 2009 1:36AM

<< Yes, I don't have that. >>

So you're saying the Mint did at least a second printing of the UHR book.. so the ones with the double "most" in the same sentence IS an error.. well.. cool ;-) ..

Thanks,
Harv

adamlaneus · September 13, 2009 1:38AM

No, i'm saying that Yes, I don't have the proposed error book with only one most.

My book has two 'most's.

Sorry. I was trying to give a very unambiguous, frustrating answer. It worked. My day is complete and I will spew no more lunacy on this forum today. Thank you!

hrlaser · September 13, 2009 1:52AM

So.. the "error" book has the correctly-printed wording..

Well, whatever.. it's a cool book..

UHR BOOK ERROR

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