INDIAN RUPEES AT THE US MINT

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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 26, June 26, 2016, Article 12

INDIAN RUPEES AT THE US MINT

While some Mint "errors" are clear fabrications, others are not (or at least, not so obviously faked). Check this out. -Editor

1964 Lincoln Cent Struck On a Indian 1942 quarter Rupee obverse

1964 Lincoln Cent Struck On a Indian 1942 quarter Rupee reverse

Julia Purdy writes:

I noticed the article about the 1964 One Cent coin stuck on an Indian 1/4 Rupee. I decided to see if I could find any information that might help explain how this came to be and I found this newspaper article from The Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY) 12 October 1960. I thought it may be a clue as to what happened. I wanted to pass it along in case it could be a help.

Thanks! I don't remember reading about this episode. (And I like how the New York Assay Office is called an "essay office"). The article doesn't say anything about the returned coins passing through a U.S. Mint facility, and the wartime minting operations were long over by 1964. But it is at least plausible that a stray Indian coin could have lurked in the mint's facilities until then. A fascinating error regardless. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
1964 LINCOLN CENT STRUCK ON A INDIAN 1942 1/4 RUPEE (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n25a11.html)

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