The Coin on the Conveyor: How Twelve Planchets Became Evidence
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The Coin on the Conveyor: How Twelve Planchets Became Evidence
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Fear of being outsmarted - a single medallion, dated December 8, sits perfectly centered on an idle conveyor at 3:47 a.m., three days before production was to begin. How did twelve finished coins vanish from inventory, eleven sealed in a lockbox and one left in plain sight - and who engineered a months-long plan that only unraveled because a beagle found a fence gap?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events recorded by security, inventory logs, and witness reports to trace how the missing planchets became evidence, and ask how routine procedures failed until a small detail exposed the scheme.
Person: Dean Sharp
Location: Calloway Precision Mint, Calloway Precision Campus, Kessler County, Ohio
Date: December 9 (security timestamp 3:47 a.m.)
Event: Delivery of 3,048 planchets on December 3; by December 10 records show 3,036 planchets
Item: Twelve finished medallions found - eleven sealed in a transport case, one on conveyor
- Security camera captured a single finished medallion on the conveyor at 3:47 a.m, on December 9.
- Delivery on December 3 recorded 3,048 platinum planchets for the Veterans' Foundation contract.
- Inventory by December 10 showed 3,036 planchets, indicating twelve missing planchets.
- Eleven finished coins were vacuum-sealed in individual capsules inside a transport case secured with a four-digit combination equal to the last four digits of the contract number.
- A fence gap near the loading area was reported by Jerry Smith at 6:22 a.m., after his beagle Rocket found it following a grooming appointment.
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