Found in Mud: The $250 Coin That Exposed a Mint Heist
Found in Mud: The $250 Coin That Exposed a Mint Heist
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…
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