# So do YOU have that new Dollar/Quarter coin? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-do-you-have-that-new-dollar-quarter-coin/22649 "2000-06-16T23:26:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-do-you-have-that-new-dollar-quarter-coin/22649/1 "2000-06-16T23:26:10Z")
Apparantly someone going to be _very_ rich tonight. Because of a minting mistake there has been produced a Sackie coin with George Washington’s portrait on front. A goid coin with Washington on the front and the dollar eagle on back. There is only one reported coin of this (which is being auctioned) but who knows, there could be lots more out there. This coin came from Arkansas. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-do-you-have-that-new-dollar-quarter-coin/22649/2 "2000-06-17T00:22:24Z")
Here’s a news link: [Gold Dollar Could Fetch $100,000](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000616/us/dollar_coin_error_0410_2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-do-you-have-that-new-dollar-quarter-coin/22649/3 "2000-06-17T00:51:09Z")
We discussed that coin in chat last night…most of us are skeptical. It doesn’t seem like such a mistake is even possible, for many reasons; the two coins should be stamped on different machines, for one thing. Plus the new gold dollar is larger than the quarter and thus shouldn’t even fit in a quarter stamper, which makes the perfect centering of the Washington portrait very strange indeed. I suspect that it’s not so much a mistake as something purposely done by a U.S. Mint employee that escaped out into the public. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-do-you-have-that-new-dollar-quarter-coin/22649/4 "2000-06-17T00:52:55Z")
I don’t have it. Sigh. But I really do like the Sackie coin. Go on thru the woods, Grrl! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-do-you-have-that-new-dollar-quarter-coin/22649/5 "2000-06-17T01:47:25Z")
Check this out from [Coin World Online](http://www.coinworld.com/news/2000/062600/mule062600.html). They say that it has been verified. I think the guy is making a good move by unloading it before anymore are found. I would doubt that only one coin made it out into circulation. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-do-you-have-that-new-dollar-quarter-coin/22649/6 "2000-06-17T02:07:08Z")
I went to the bank today and got a sackie!