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Message:: [QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3170229, member: 46237"]Most series have only one type, therefore there is most often no distinction as to the group of coins referred to by using either term. However, the words type and series never mean the same thing in definition. What gets confusing is how types are defined. You'll note your definition of type states "a major design or compositional change". Well, what is major exactly? People don't seem to agree. In truth, any time the mint makes a deliberate design change within a series, it creates a new type. Some types are very minor though and people discount them. But where is the cutoff? For example most people will tell you the Barber quarter series only has one type. Others will tell you it has three. For Standing Liberty Quarters, there is disagreement as to whether to count the series as having two types or three (I say three!) etc..[/QUOTE]