An interesting entry. Recently on my forum we had a previously banned member try to have some fun with us. He posted a photo of a pile of OC's and claimed to get them at his new part time job.

Later in the topic he claims that he works for a company that supplies the sheet stock to make the planchets and that they send back the errors to his company to be melted. He further claims that he sells off the good ones to Fred Weinberg.

While this particular topic was a complete ruse, it sparked some serious emails from my members wondering if this could really happen. I wish I had an answer for them. Could it happen? Who knows.

I let the topic stand with my own notes in the pranksters posts if you would like to take a look....

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21101

Bobby
Webmaster / Co-Owner: Coincommunity.com

It's definitely time for something to happen. The mint has
obviously gotten over it's head. The massive numbers of state
quarters, dollars, commemoratives, etc., etc., that they have
forced themselves to put out, is obviously taking it's toll.
I'm curious as heck to know how many unneeded coins they have
put into storage, just since the start of the state quarters,
but not just those, but all coins, during that period to present. It's obvious that the quality has gone down, not just in business coinage, but collector coinage as well. We read about all the results constantly. And just a side note, why
can't they make a copper plated aluminum cent. Is zinc really
something to be proud of?