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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinman_Ben, post: 876227, member: 9923&quot;]I know what you mean, it&#039;s very exiting to find errors, especially as a new collector.&nbsp; It seems like most people responding to this thread seem to think it&#039;s not an error, but imo, it&#039;s a very minor error that&#039;s common for pre Y2K coinage.&nbsp; It&#039;s caused by the planchet (i.e. blank coin), spilling over the edge of the side dies that keep the coins in place while the coin is being struck.&nbsp; Since Y2K, the mint has made their quality control for coins more strict than they were prior, so that error isn&#039;t happening nearly as often as it was prior to Y2K. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays, the most common errors are surface errors with the state quarters, but you have to be lucky to find them because they tend not to travel too far apart because once the error is discovered, that&#039;s when the rush comes in to collect those quarters and than after awhile, the rush dies down and all the error coins of that type are in collectors&#039; hands, case in point, the &#039;extra leaf&#039; error with the Wisconsin D quarter, the majority of them were discovered at one bank, than once the word got out, many people started rushing into the market, I was one of them, in fact, I paid $30 per roll for three rolls of Wisconsin D quarters hoping to find an extra leaf error, but didn&#039;t find any, but of course, I was a pretty impulsive coin buyer at that time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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