LOOSE CHANGE: OCTOBER 29, 2023

Having been a part of the PCGS Marketing and Content teams for about five years now, I've encountered, and shared, a lot of error coins that make people openly wonder, How does that even happen? Some of the more puzzling pieces are included below.

 
PCGS MS64+ Lincoln Cent Struck on 2.8g Screw. Courtesy of PCGS TrueView.

Ask anyone to draw Frankenstein's monster and there are likely to be a few elements that nearly each person will include, mostly based off of Boris Karloff's 1930s portrayals. One of those must have ingredients are The Creature's neck bolts. Yes, the pictured cent was struck on a screw, and not a bolt, but it's no doubt an oddity that caused quite a stir when it was first posted on PCGS' social media in 2019 spawning hundreds of comments and shares.

To read the complete article, see:
Frankensteinian Mistakes: Some of the Weirdest Error Coins You've Ever Seen (https://www.pcgs.com/news/frankensteinian-mistakes-some-of-the-weirdest-error-coins-youve-ever-seen)

 

A former professional blackjack player may be on the cusp of cracking one of the most notorious cold cases in history—one so puzzling, even the FBI couldn't solve it. But first, the sleuth just needs to get his hands on a discarded black tie.

Eric Ulis of Michigan is so convinced that he's the man to finally solve the infamous D.B. Cooper skyjacking of Thanksgiving Eve 1971—the only unsolved commercial airline hijacking in U.S. history—that he's literally suing the FBI to make it happen.

In 2022, Ulis laid out his theory on how the remnants of an alloy that the FBI reportedly found on Cooper's tossed tie pinpoint the skyjacker's workplace to a Midland, Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of titanium-antimony. All Ulis needs now, he feels, is the samples off the tie themselves, which is why he's pursuing litigation to procure them.

To read the complete article, see:
A Dazzling Piece of Evidence May Finally End the Mystery of D.B. Cooper's Identity (https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dazzling-piece-evidence-may-finally-140900386.html)

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