Found in Mud: The $250 Coin That Exposed a Mint Heist
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Found in Mud: The $250 Coin That Exposed a Mint Heist
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A mirror-proof half-dollar with no date or mint mark and a denomination of $250 was found in meltwater in rural Ohio in December 2011 - a coin that should not have existed and that would unravel a secret scheme in nine days. Who let dies for a cancelled bullion program stay in a vault, and how did a routine night shift become the means to produce illicit specimen strikes?
In this episode, we tell how a retired postal worker’s chance discovery led investigators from a gravel path to a private mint and a chain of events that exposed off-hour production, false provenance, and phone records linking employees to an outside logistics consultant. How did electrical submetering, die custody, and fourteen quiet conversations become the trail that answered the question everyone asked after the coin was found?
Person: Marie Armstrong
Date: early December 2011
Location: Harwick Industrial Campus, Harwick, Ohio
Case: unauthorized specimen strikes using tabled dies
Event: eleven nighttime electrical spikes between February and November 2011
- The coin was half-dollar sized, proof-struck, with mirror fields and a $250 denomination on the reverse.
- Marie Armstrong, age 53, found the coin in a patch of meltwater while photographing a red-tailed hawk.
- The Harwick Industrial Mint operated two shifts: day shift with 14 workers and evening shift with 9 workers.
- The mint ran three presses: one Schuler for blanking/initial striking and two Graebner presses for finishing.
- Between January and October 2011, subpoenaed phone records showed 14 calls between Melvin Reynolds and Sharon Hansen.
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