The Truth
Even though the U.S. Treasury declared his coin as a fraud, the agency eventually took back its word. It confirmed that the Lincoln penny was a true “Holy Grail of mint errors.” The breakthrough was made by researchers upon the realization that copper planchets were stuck in the doors of the tote bin. They used the tote bins for coins that failed to make the final press into the machine.
The Truth
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They Slipped Through
During the early 1940s, some coins slipped through the net. Heritage Auctions said that they “became dislodged and were fed into the coin press, along with the wartime steel blanks.” The collectors have since dedicated their lives to this mission. They try to find the highly elusive “error coins.”
They Slipped Through
