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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 463378, member: 4350&quot;]Hi green18,</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for your post<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I don&#039;t get offended.&nbsp; I do get a little frustrated at times and I guess that&#039;s normal.</p><p><br /></p><p>In your post,&nbsp; you put a finger on the heart of the issue when you say about yourself... &quot;I, myself, have absolutely no experiance with error coins of any kind&quot;....and....&quot;It looks (to me) like some kind of a minting error....what kind? Heck, I don&#039;t know.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>You say...&quot;No experience&quot;...I have 40 years of valid numismatic experience.&nbsp; </p><p>You say...&quot;Heck, I don&#039;t know&quot;.....I do know....</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not trying to be disrespectful but I think that I would choose a mechanic, for example, who has had a lucrative and well respected reputation to fix my car,&nbsp; over someone who admits up front that they have no experience with a wrench.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again&nbsp; meaning no disrespect.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a lot to know but it isn&#039;t rocket science,&nbsp; as they say.&nbsp; There are only so many possibilities that would result in a mint error or die variety.&nbsp; What is seen on a coin has to fit what is possible and there are limits as to what occurs at the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simply put if it does not fit any of the possible ways for an error or die variety to occur at the Mint, then a coin is damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we see what truly is damage,&nbsp; we point out the signs, such as I did, that it is. </p><p><br /></p><p>The big key here is knowing the Minting process, inside out, upside down and backwards so that you can rule things in based upon that knowledge.&nbsp; Anything other than what can be ruled in as an error or die variety based upon a complete knowledge of the Minting process is a damaged coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When a coin is damaged,&nbsp; it is impossible in most cases to say just what happened only that what is there is outside the possibilities created by the minting process itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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