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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2497294, member: 66"]No.  They made it illegal to import Kruggrands dated after 1985 but earlier ones were perfectly legal to own.  (The idea was to protest apartheid, and to encourage the purchase of the US art medallions and later AGE's.)  That  restriction was later lifted and all Kruggerands are OK now. That's one reasonwhy they put the lettering on the edge, to create more room on the obv and rev so the coin would have a less clutter appearance. The only edge error I know of on the proof president dollars is on some of the Jefferson proofs.  The edge dies were all the same except for the lettering and on some of the Jeffersons they got the positions of two of the edge dies reversed.  Instead of saying 2007 S IN GOD WE TRUST  E PLURIBUS UNUM, it says  2007 S  E PLURIBUS UNUM  IN GOD WE TRUST.   They were discovered back in 2007 but pretty much no one knows about them.  After they were discovered they made changes to the edge dies so they couldn't be installed in the wrong order. There have been plenty of coins, including US coins with lettered edges before the President dollars, but all in the era before vending machines that do beat the heck out of the edges.[/QUOTE]