Profound thought

Being from Vermont, I prefer sucking on maple trees and drinking whiskey. Pine trees are only for keeping things from being completely white in the winter.

 

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All coin collectors are Numismatist, but not all Numismatist are coin collectors.

 

Correct

Correct, the die is in error.

The doubled dies are errors, but the coins struck from those doubled dies are just the variety that that die produced. See the first quoted sentence.

Neither one, it is just a late die state.

I'll agree with the second part of that but not the first. I've known a lot of coin collectors that were NOT Numismatists.

 

Bullionistas are NO KIND OF NUMISMATIST AT ALL!

 

Nooooo. All Varieties are NOT Errors unless you actually believe that it was an "error" to have a memorial reverse in lieu of a wheat reverse?
Or a Type B Reverse instead of a Type A or Type C Reverse on the Washington Quarter.

Traditionally speaking, an "ERROR" is a fault on the coining process. Varieties occur in the die making process regardless of whether or not an error was made in the die creation.

It's the same old Circulated/Uncirculated arguments.

 

Nooooo. All Varieties are NOT Errors unless you actually believe that it was an "error" to have a memorial reverse in lieu of a wheat reverse?
Or a Type B Reverse instead of a Type A or Type C Reverse on the Washington Quarter.

Traditionally speaking, an "ERROR" is a fault on the coining process. Varieties occur in the die making process regardless of whether or not an error was made in the die creation.

It's the same old Circulated/Uncirculated arguments.

How about varieties within a variety. No argument here.

 

[QUOTE="alurid,


Just wanted to have a nice discussion on the forum. I know the difference. Was just thinking about how a large portion of the posts on the error forum are doubled dies. I'm no noob to the hobby and I am a numismatist. If one person learned anything from this thread then mission accomplished.
T.H.W all the haters![/QUOTE]

 

I have not heard of the circulated/Uncirculated argument. I'm willing to bet its very fun. I learned quite alot from this post. Thanks to most who posted. I now have a better understanding and higher regards for the difference between definitions and terminology. And how much it can W.P.U.

 

FWIW, the "Error Coins" forum is the closest thing there is for the discussion of Varieties. We also don't have a forum for Tokens and Medals so I usually post mine in the "Coin Chat" forum, but sometimes others will use the "World Coins" or US Coins" forum.

Chris

 

I love coin talk

 

Error forum should be renamed "pointless pictures of normal coins with normal anomolies hoping to make it rich because they are too lazy to learn anything, especially by posting on the first coin website they could find on google".

 

I am contemplating changing my username to LetMeGoogleThatForYou. Ooooh, a brilliant idea just formed....

 

Wow, that's cold. Highly accurate, but cold.

 

I must point out that this whole thread began with an error. Bourbon is whiskey. Whisky is Scotch.

 

Which if you drink too much, errors result. See? The converstaion has gone full circle.

 

I'll drink to that!

 

Variety
Fine details of a coin's design which set it apart from the normal issue.

 

I know I see double sometimes when

I know I see double sometimes when I drink whisky, if that helps...