Ran across magicfan007 today while perusing errors. And using the term Cud for 99% of coins that are actually die chips. BUT he has extremely good ratings. It's another sad case of a lot of people buying coins, and being uniformed, only to later be very disappointed when they find out that these minor die chips are not nearly worth what real Cuds might be. One dime was even toted as being an good future investment. Again, minor chips.
Ran across a thread today about someone using the wrong terminology that cannot keep his own terminology correct
One common wrong terminology that I often see is overstrike which is used to describe overdate. Overdate is when an engraver changes the year of an older die and re-engrave to a newer year. Overstrike is when older coins are used as planchets and used to strike as 'new' coins. Another one is a poor example of sellers trying to get away selling counterfeits by describing Russian 'restrikes' as novodel. Novodel is actually genuine restrikes by the mints with some possible modifications. Of course, this word has been abused too many times and some are under the impression that novodels are cheap copies where in reality, genuine novodels are actually struck for serious collectors and could be very very expensive (with the exception of the 1902 37.5 franc - 100 ruble and later Soviet proof novodel)
