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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy9, post: 863373, member: 8360&quot;]A cent is made at &quot;the mint&quot;, however the term &quot;mint error&quot; does not refer to the building in which it is produced. A mint error occurs within the machine that stamps or &quot;mints&quot; the coin. If it doesn&#039;t happen at the time the coin is struck then it isn&#039;t a mint error. A coin minted on a damaged or clipped planchet is not an error because of the planchet per se, but rather the fact that the coin was stamped on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Among the recognized errors are; clipped planchet, lamination peel, off center strike, broadstrike, brokage, capped die, wrong planchet, struck through and combinations therof. I&#039;m sure I missed some but those are the major ones. There are also minor mint errors that bring no premium except in their severest form; cracked die, die chip, and misaligned die being the most common.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything that happens to the coin after the strike, even if it happens in the mint building, is just post mint damaged. If a mint employee steps on a coin and scuffs it up, puts it back in the hopper and sends it off to the rolling company, it is still just post mint damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin above with the squished &quot;0&quot; is the result of damage caused in the coin rolling machine. the metal was moved by the finger of the roll crimper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Richard[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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