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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 3111133, member: 24544&quot;]Strictly speaking, a variety is simple a specific die pairing.&nbsp; So the three legged buffalo is a variety as only a single obverse die had the leg ground away.&nbsp; Likewise, the WAM cents are varieties, the wide letters denote a specific die/dies.&nbsp; VAMS, Newcomb numbers, Sheldon numbers, Overtons, these are all specific varieties.&nbsp; Now, some varieties can also be errors in the sense that the mint made a mistake when they created the specific die, i.e. overdates, doubled dies, cuds, etc., but again even doubled dies are technically varieties as the doubling generally occurs from a single specific die (leaving out those early 70 doubled master hubs).</p><p><br /></p><p>Any other oddity produced by the mint is just a plain old error.&nbsp; So clipped planchets, struck through grease, capped die, broadstroke, etc.&nbsp; These are errors that occur at the mint but are related to the minting process, not related to a specific set of dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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