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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rzage, post: 1978067, member: 14070&quot;]Josh you should really invest in a few books , it&#039;s like you have no concept about how coins were made . You said coins being minted by machines have little or no errors involved . But in fact they do . One of the coins I collect are Bust halves , we classify these by Overton # . Which is the study of die marriages and how they are all different because they were made by hand . Especially the lettering and Date were all punched into each die by hand , so their placement and sometimes the punches themselves were different . Or they&#039;d use an 1813 punched die in 1814 , so they&#039;d take a 4 punch and punch the 4 over the 3 creating an over date .Even the Dies themselves would change over their use from wear from the flow of metal causing the stars to elongate and other changes . These are ways to tell if a coin is real or fake . Knowledge is power .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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