LOOSE CHANGE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

 

The 2021 theft of error coins from the Denver Mint involved 2021-D Kennedy half dollars and 2021-D America the Beautiful quarter dollars, according to Richard Delmar, deputy director of the Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General.

The errors were pieces that, after production, had been kustered — waffle-canceled in machinery manufactured by the Dutch firm Kusters Engineering. The machinery uses a series of equally spaced knives to deform a coin into a shape resembling a rippled potato chip.

Coin World was provided a redacted Report of Investigation Aug. 17 pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request. Coin World filed the FOIA request July 5 after Treasury Department officials did not provide responses to questions posed via telephone and email.

To read the complete article, see:
Treasury OIG report offers Denver Mint theft details (https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/treasury-oig-report-offers-denver-mint-theft-details)

A 99-year-old RAF veteran has had her Second World War debt repaid when she was presented with a set of five shilling coins.

Peggy Terry served with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and when she was discharged in 1945 was still owed the money.

And 77 years later, the debt was repaid by the RAF during a special ceremony with friends and family at Mrs Terry's home in Gorslas, Carmarthenshire.

To read the complete article, see:
99-year-old veteran has wartime debt repaid by RAF (https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/national/20683744.99-year-old-veteran-wartime-debt-repaid-raf/)

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