5c die cap

[enworb]

This is awesome, did anyone here win it? I reckon thats a relatively low price.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/130881450384?nma=true&si=s23T9T%2FKfGQIyHOgucXKXCloZEY%3D&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2557&orig_cvip=true

[trout]

I have NEVER seen anything like that, The damn thing looks like a bottle top:yahoo:

[Fordprefect]

This is awesome, did anyone here win it? I reckon thats a relatively low price.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/130881450384?nma=true&si=s23T9T%2FKfGQIyHOgucXKXCloZEY%3D&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2557&orig_cvip=true

Need to wait if M decides to share :angel:

[JeffH]

I bet that was never plucked from circulation. Somehow managed to miss the scrap bin at the mint, I suspect.

[enworb]

I agree Jeff. Either out of the mint or the security company rolling machine. Still awesome though!!!!!

[markn]

Uh perhaps someone here won it :angel:

[purplepennyhunter]

Or perhaps a couple of someone's.

[markn]

I bet that was never plucked from circulation. Somehow managed to miss the scrap bin at the mint, I suspect.

He also just sold this:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/australian-coin10-ten-cent-coin-super-rare-error-double-error-/130881431648?pt=AU_Coins2&hash=item1e79242860&_uhb=1#ht_634wt_1165


We've never seen an Australian error pair like it.  We suspect he might have had a father or grandfather working at the mint.  He's in Canberra.  Coincidence?

[enworb]

Congrats on the die cap PPH and Markn!

Those 10c are amazing!!!

[markn]

Those 10c are amazing!!!

Yes they are.  I'd love to be able to afford them.

[JeffH]

Ho can i cultivate a mint employee to bring me home some things like that?

[markn]

Ho can i cultivate a mint employee to bring me home some things like that?

He/she had better be willing to go to gaol.  This is what happened to a US Mint employee in the last year or two:

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/US-Mint-Worker-Stole--129518468.html

[enworb]

The thing i like about the 5c is it isnt 'mint sport'. Its a genuine error which was more than likely smuggled from the mint.

[robbiegal]

humm
older years

so the smuggling should of happened some years back

nice pick-up Mark
extremely rare error there

[Fulvio]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/US-Mint-Worker-Stole--129518468.html

That story was rubbish. A sad reflection on what passes for journalism nowadays. This one is much better:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/u-s-mint-reviewing-security-after-cape-may-county-man/article_5dacb66e-ebb7-11e0-9c10-001cc4c03286.html

The feds sure did a number on him... for nicking 32,000 bits of scrap metal, they took from him (and his family) three years of his life, everything he owned, his future AND $2.3 million. Moral of the story is, if you're going to commit a crime, choose your target carefully.