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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fusiafinch, post: 849974, member: 18382&quot;]Edge lettering of the Presidential dollars and Sacagawea dollars are randomly oriented with respect to the faces of the coins. The way I understand it, the edge lettering is put onto the coins after the coin is struck. The coins are transferred from the coining press into a large hopper where they are fed into a machine to put the edge lettering on it. There is no way to orient the coin through the edge lettering machine in this process. So I expect virtually every dollar to be a little different from every other dollar. PCGS even grades Position A and Position B, where in one position, the edge lettering is right side up w/r to the obverse, and the other position is upside down w/r to the obverse. Since the orientation process is random, I would expect the populations of these 2 positions to be virtually the same if large amounts of coins are graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>The edge errors that are bringing premiums are coins with no edge lettering or very weak edge lettering. One of the rarest errors was a Zach Taylor dollar with a 2010 edge date, when all of those dollars were struck in 2009. This happened when a Taylor dollar stuck in the hopper and went unnoticed while the new 2010 Sacagawea dollars were first made.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a link to help understand the process:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://presidentialdollarguide.com/presidential-dollar-error-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://presidentialdollarguide.com/presidential-dollar-error-coins/" rel="nofollow">http://presidentialdollarguide.com/presidential-dollar-error-coins/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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