How 47 Missing Coins Exposed a Mint's Perfect Alibi
How 47 Missing Coins Exposed a Mint's Perfect Alibi
Forty-seven coins, sealed in tamper-evident tape and stamped with a production year not yet authorized, were found in an almost-empty three-quarter-mile stretch of road after eleven inches of snow - and every ledger at the mint said those coins never existed. Who read the system well enough to hide physical evidence inside a process designed to make hiding impossible, and what tiny slip revealed them?
In this episode, we follow the discovery at dawn, the federal-quality controls that should have made such a disappearance impossible, and the…
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