What are the chances?

As it is been a while since any major error variety in a while in the cent arena, what are the chances that there will be a 2018 cent error where the P Mint Mark will be left on from 2017? I'd say we're due. Now if only it was copper also!

 

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The chances are somewhere between 0% and 100%

 

Can't happen. Won't happen.

 

So just for fun say they drop the mintage on 2018 cents (in theory). And I truly mean this in all fun. Whose to say what can happen, and once it gets put out there like any idea, that the chances don't increase exponentially? Things are rare because they weren't intended but did. Lower the mintage on cents and if perhaps there was a Whoops moment, suddenly people who weren't interested before suddenly are (frustrating for us collectors), but fun in that now more people are looking than before. After seeing the sale of the 1943-S copper, who knows? Dream a little dream...

 

BTW, I am a cents fan but not the biggest Zincoln fan. Still a fan nonetheless...

 

It cannot happen by accident. It can ONLY happen with intent. Mintmarks are no longer "added to" dies like they once were, at the end stage of the process, they are an integral element of the hub itself. Dream on. It cannot happen.

Here's a challenge for the OP, since he brought it up: How does that happen, exactly?

 

I have studies the die making process and know with all the advances that it is as Steven Tyler said...Dream On. So it would have to be by intent. By all means it is improbable but not impossible

 

I know how it could happen, but I want the OP to use his noodle and come up with an answer.

Chris

 

The mint mark would have to be engraved into the working die for it to show up, which if they wanted to do some test dies with it and then tweak the design with the mark off, it could be done. Again, an act of pure intention

 

May I say thank you also to the people here who always help to deepen our knowledge and appreciation for this hobby. I wish everything in life could be like this! Something to strive for

 

Agreed! It would have to be an illegal attempt by an unscrupulous employee to manufacture an altered coin. It would probably be more easily accomplished by using one of the old mintmark punches on a working die.

Chris

 

Not that any of this would be unprecedented. Can you say, “Homestead ATB quarter window treatments”?

 

Or an unscrupulous person in a country with lack of copyright laws ,with a press make some for eBay and craigslist.

 

...or a Daniel Carr fantasy piece?

 

Hilarious! It's an interesting age we live in now by far...

 

No, no, no... this hypothetical individual wouldn't be "unscrupulous" but simply an "artist" producing "art" and would therefore be perfectly acceptable. Additionally, and as you surely know, the "P" alone would quite reasonably constitute a "signature", at least as long as it was mentioned somewhere on an obscure website.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave....

 

So you’re not taking Dan out to dinner, then?

 

Steely Dan? Sure... it'd be an honor to dine with Mr. Fagan.

 

You hipsters with your ubercool cultural references, you slay me.

 

And it would be even more funny if he struck an 'F' mint mark on the coin for Philadelphia, since that would be the phonetic equivalent of PH.