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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7628700, member: 105098&quot;]No it changes nothing. Look a clash is an error. An error occurs in the minting process where a planchet doesn&#039;t get between the dies and the faces slam into each other and the operator doesn&#039;t catch it. It&#039;s absolutely an error.</p><p><br /></p><p>However they can be varieties if it can be used to identify a die pair on a series that people care about die varieties on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly it&#039;s technically a die stage identifier and not an error or variety really. Like polishing lines or die cracks, it&#039;s an event during the life of the dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC can call it whatever they want. They also called coins first strikes, early releases, first releases but it doesn&#039;t mean they are actual first strikes, actually released early, or actually a first release, it just means the submitter got it in within the submission period to get the labels.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC isn&#039;t wrong in calling it an error though, but if it were a Morgan dollar or the 1955 bugs bunny Franklin half it would be a variety, and if it was a clash on a, I dunno a wheat cent I suppose,&nbsp; it would be a die stage or die event.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gotta call it something and it&#039;s mostly how it&#039;s seen and if it has value as a variety or as a die stage or not, because if it doesn&#039;t it would just be an error in the minting process technically.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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