The Thousand Phantom Dollars: How Mint Workers Walked Out With Silver
The Thousand Phantom Dollars: How Mint Workers Walked Out With Silver
A chill morning discovery - a flawless Morgan-design silver dollar standing upright in frost - set off an investigation that revealed 1,200 unauthorized strikes and a missing parallel inventory. How did coins produced inside a bonded vault disappear without an alarm, and who used the mint's own presses to make them?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Nicole Sheridan's photograph at 6:22 a.m. to the production-log discrepancy uncovered by Wendy Alcott, and the access-and-video records Ralph Fisher used to narrow…
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