Would the dime on the right be considered a crooked D since it seems to be leaning to one direction instead of upright. What would cause it to look like this? View attachment 231757 Thank you, Sandy
Mintmarks were punched into the Working Dies by hand in 1988 so the location and orientation of the mintmarks could vary slightly.
Thank you Hobo for the quick reply. This is my first day on CT and I have learned alot already. Been collecting since childhood but never really paid much attention to the errors. I find the subject very interesting.
I would not call those "errors". Slight differences between coins are not necessarily errors. Errors tend to be unique (e.g., an off-center strike, a clipped planchet, etc.) whereas a die with an anomaly (e.g., die doubling, a repunched mintmark or date, etc.) can strike many coins with the same anomaly. The latter is called a "variety".
Thank you for straightening me out on that. So you are saying that variety coins of which there could be many are less desirable than error coins because there are fewer of them? Is that correct? Very interesting.
