U.S. Mint Goof Produces Dollar Coins Without 'God'

pk · 03-08-2007, 09:38 AM

if you are a coin collector you may be interested in this article:

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.

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.

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pk · 03-11-2007, 03:32 AM

I was looking at these new dollars (the correctly made ones) the other day and was surprised that the date etc is on the very outside edge that goes around the coin. I would think in time all of this would wear down faster on the edge of the coin leaving no way to know the date.

Does anyone know why they decided to put the date, etc. on the edge like this?

pk