Hi I get your concern,what is not clear is how are coins with same exact irregular markings not considered a mint error? it is not all PMD same distorted Lincolns head on all the coins..so now the mint prints Lincoln's head to look like cartoons with any shape nothing official and solid? So there is no minting standards so Lincoln looking all distorted is considered normal?
What you see is just not worth anything if you like them keep them that is your choice I would spend them and that's my opinion like it's yours to keep them But you are an amateur coin collector and do not have high standing in any coin community and you acting like you are the high King of coins collector and will not expect that your wrong
Kentucky Thank You ..when communicating here i will try to use the correct numismatic terminology..remember Kentucky..you have been doing this years me months in all reality weeks.
I am not trying to be sarcastic , just try again to help you. This is the difficulty. I would wager that most of us spent many years learning about coins and the mint process. We didn't have forums, coin websites with photos of varieties and errors. Most of the books I had then were B/W and the photos were very crappy. But the dies were made with multiple hubbing process, so the DD were true DDs. The multiple billions of coins produced now each year suffers from lack of reliability ( IMO) in reproducing the image. A lot of education , reading and observing examples on the net,reading the threads here back for years, all of these should come first. That is why MD students can't practice after their first year of anatomy....there is a very large amount to earning to go. Best of luck. Jim
An "error" in the die is either a die stage or a variety (die cracks, die breakes die scratch, die gouge, die clash, Doubled dies, overdates etc). True errors in the coin are typically "one ofs" and ALL of them are unique (off-center, clips, double struck, strike,throughs, die caps, saddle strikes, laminations etc.)