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River Coins, Hidden Run: How 412 Proofs Vanished from a Mint

River Coins, Hidden Run: How 412 Proofs Vanished from a Mint

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A sealed mint case turns up in a Kansas river with proof silver dollars-did they make it in time?

River Coins, Hidden Run: How 412 Proofs Vanished from a Mint

In this episode, we follow how a routine production run at a licensed commemorative mint generated a paperwork-perfect discrepancy that only a retiree's fishing trotline exposed. The episode traces the people, the schedules, and the fleeting gaps that let 412 proof silver dollars leave the mint unaccounted for-what sequence of choices allowed them to disappear?

Person: Teresa Novak
Location: Ninnescah River, south of Caldwell, Kansas
Date: December 9, 2019
Case: Sealed gray case with thirty-eight proof silver dollars
Facility: Hargrove Commemorative Mint

- A numbered, inventoried calibration case signed back into Hargrove's logs was later found dry and sealed on the river bottom.
- Production run of 4,200 proof silver dollars had scheduled two shifts on December 3-4 with controlled access and die rotations.
- Die-room supervisor Ryan Miller worked 11 years at Hargrove and kept a weekly routine that created a predictable Wednesday-night gap.
- Crew planner Gary Lewis had scheduling access and intimate knowledge of which nights the floor would run light.
- Four hundred twelve additional proof dollars, struck with sequential die numbers and logged as destroyed, were moved offsite without any gap showing in official paperwork.

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