Error coins that are larger than normal size....
Peaceman
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So how does a capped cent or strike error on a penny that increase the size of the coin.....
EVER fit into a roll to be shipped to a bank and ultimately found by collectors...
EVER fit into a roll to be shipped to a bank and ultimately found by collectors...
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These errors are found in bags, not in rolls.
Edited to Add: More common prior to the schuler presses being used at the mint, but a few die caps have still occurred and escaped.
From Mint to Fed in bags to ?????, curious..
Philadelphia and Denver have slightly different processes for removing defective coins, mostly based on denomination, building layout, and available equipment.
Proof and mint sets are packaged and inspected inside the mints.
<< <i>Coins go from the press to a small hopper where the press operator makes periodic inspections. If there are no problems they are dumped through a hole in the floor where they are processed by riddlers and other equipment to remove non-standard pieces. From there they go into the large bags of about $200,000 to await shipment. FRBs place orders for coins, and the mints ship the large bags to commercial counting houses for rolling. Additional errors are caught there, and placed in destruction bins. The counting facilities distribute to commercial banks and businesses.
Philadelphia and Denver have slightly different processes for removing defective coins, mostly based on denomination, building layout, and available equipment.
Proof and mint sets are packaged and inspected inside the mints. >>
When I used to take Summer Seminar students on the floor of the Denver Mint back around 1979-1983, coins came off the press into hoppers on wheels that were moved to an inspection area. There they were dumped onto conveyor belts that ran past inspectors who picked out obvious errors. At the end, they were dumped into coin counters and bagged in standard bags ($50 cents, $200 nickels, $500 dimes, etc.)
I never saw anything go through holes in the floor, though that may have been added later.
When I got a floor tour of the Philadelphia Mint in February of 2009, almost all of the production went from the press into an inspection hopper, which was dumped onto a small conveyor belt covered with stainless steel trays, which carried them to a longer and larger conveyor belt of stainless steel trays that ran past several coin presses and carried the coins, uninspected after the press operator dumped his catch basin, to a machine that filled ballistic bags.
The exceptions were Kennedy halves which, because they are such limited press runs now, were struck on free-standing presses that dumped the coins into the hoppers on wheels. Presumably they were then taken to a different part of the mint and rolled or bagged in the $100 bags sold to the public. Again, I never saw anything go through the floor.
TD