In this undated photo released by Professional Coin Grading Service, a George Washington dollar coin missing the edge inscription is shown.
Posted on 03/07/2007 9:47:53 PM PST by ajolympian2004
AP
Dollar Coins Missing 'In God We Trust'
Wednesday March 7, 12:51 pm ET
By Joann Loviglio, Associated Press Writer
U.S. Mint Says Unknown Number of New One Dollar Coins Missing 'In God We Trust' Inscription
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and made it past inspectors and into circulation, the U.S. Mint said Wednesday.
In this undated photo released by Professional Coin Grading Service, a George Washington dollar coin missing the edge inscription is shown.
The properly struck dollar coins, bearing the likeness of George Washington, are inscribed along the edge with "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum" and the year and mint mark. They went into circulation Feb. 15.
The mint struck 300 million of the coins, which are golden in color and slightly larger and thicker than a quarter.
About half were made in Philadelphia and the rest in Denver. So far the mint has only received reports of error coins coming from Philadelphia, mint spokeswoman Becky Bailey said.
Bailey said it was unknown how many coins didn't have the inscriptions. Ron Guth, president of Professional Coin Grading Service, one of the world's largest coin authentication companies, said he believes that at least 50,000 error coins were put in circulation.
"The first one sold for $600 before everyone knew how common they actually were," he said. "They're going for around $40 to $60 on eBay now, and they'll probably settle in the $50 range."
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>>>GW will be on both the quarter and the dollar coins, and they'll be close to the same size.
Toll booths see no problem with that.
So now these coins will become valuable collector's items, and people will scrutinize the coins for the engraving, calling attention to the engraving where it is present.
Yeah, you and the post office. The post office is the only place this thing will end up just like its predecessors. I simply hate it when I get a handfull of them for change after putting in a $20 bill for stamps. I dump them at the first opportunity.
will always believe that these type of incidents are done on purpose
I used to think the same thing and, in fact, some less than honest individuals at the Mint have created their own error coins in the past. However, I believe this is merely another indication of the low-caliber workers employed there. Remember, US MINT = Government Job, all kinds of Affirmative Action noise here. OSHA shut the place (Phila Mint)down a couple years ago. But, it gets better...
PCGS is offering $10,000.00 to anyone who can 'find' a Sac. Dollar WITH edge lettering...
We went to Mexico last year for a vacation. I took a shiney, new roll of the Sacajawea coins, thinking the little kids down there would find them cool when they sold me gum or the Cabana Boys ran to get me a margarita.
Time after time the little kids took the coin back to an adult, then came back and told me that it wasn't "real money."
"American Only!" LOL!
...And you can't convince me that the mint doesn't do this "accidentally, on purpose" to keep the collectors happy. ;)
I'm sure that is part of it. Just look at the 50 state quarter program.
And that freeper could have gotten himself some $499.
$199.
"The same year that Bill and Hillary Clinton get put on the US Currency. Barf!"
You realize you have to be deceased to be on currency, don't you?
"mistakenly struck"
how does that happen??
good thing they're fed employees, otherwise they'd probably get the sack.
My thoughts exactly. Free advertising.
But it doesn't matter - dollar coins will never catch on.
So will I.
Don't think so. Only when going to the US or when purchasing something that requires payment in US dollars from the USA . Canadians buy US dollars at their bank . If an American wants to spend a US dollar in Canada an exchange rate is offered but the dollar itself doesn't stay in circulation. It goes to a bank and is exchanged for Canadian currency.
Appreciated.
Only an estimated 50,000 of the 300,000,000 have the missing inscription. 50,000 is a small mintage in the land of coin collectors.
Now if Billy was put on PAPER money....
From Wiki...
Blood
Drinking blood is a strong social taboo in many countries, often with a vague emotive association with vampirism (the consumption of human blood).
Although blood sausage, or blood made to cake form, is quite popular in many parts of the world, it is considered repulsive in most of the United States. In Britain and some Commonwealth countries, "black pudding" or "blood pudding" is made from blood and some filler grains and spices, often oatmeal. Blood sausage is also popular in Finland (mustamakkara) and some Baltic nations like Poland (kaszanka), Latvia and Estonia, as well as in Germany (Blutwurst), Hungary (v¨¦res hurka), Spain (Morcilla), and France (Boudin). In China, Thailand and Vietnam coagulated chicken, duck, goose or pig blood, known in Chinese as "blood tofu" (Ѫ¶¹¸¯ xu¨§ d¨°uf¨³) is used in soups, such as the classic Thai dish kuay tiaw reua (boat noodles). In the Philippines, a popular dish called dinuguan is made from pig's blood and seasoned with chili and is traditionally eaten with rice cakes. In Sweden, the blood soup svartsoppa is traditionally eaten on certain holidays. Polish cuisine, has a version, czernina, which in enjoyed by many adherents, in certain regions. In Laos, and sometimes Thailand (especially the Northeast), a raw version of laap, a meat salad, is made with minced raw-meat, seasoned in spices, and covered with blood.
Followers of Judaism, Islam, and Jehovah's Witnesses are forbidden to drink blood or eat food made with blood. Some fundamentalist Christians follow the teaching in Leviticus 17:10-12, that since "the life of the animal is in the blood", no person may eat (drink) the blood on pain of excommunication. Jehovah's Witnesses interpret this prohibition against drinking blood as a prohibition against blood transfusion, although Jews and Muslims do not.
I agree with you on the calibre of people the government hires, but what was the cause many years ago of coin misprints like the 1955 penny double stamp?
Have read that article(?--Wikipedia entry) before. The question is more of what counts as blood? If there is KFC thigh, extra-crispy, would that just be meat? Or would the tiny veins/capillaries in the skin be blood? The reddish part near the bone? The obvious blood vessels? A red blood cell? A piece of hemoglobin? A trace of blood plasma?
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