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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 80166, member: 4350&quot;]Hi All,</p><p>This will make things easier when talking about ERRORS and VARIETIES.&nbsp; There is actually a definition for each word and the terms are often used incorrectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>An Error is a mishap in the actual minting process occuring when the coin is struck.&nbsp; These are things like, Off-Center struck coins,&nbsp; multiple struck coins, Coins struck on incomplete planchets,&nbsp; coins struck on metal fragments, coins struck on the wrong metal planchets, coins with die breaks or chips and so on.&nbsp; Although two ERROR coins may look the same, they are by virtue of the fact that they are individually struck, different.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A Variety is a coin that can be attributed to a particular set of dies. Each coin is (except for die state) identical to other coins struck from the same dies.&nbsp; These include varieities like Large and Small date coins, doubled dies, Repunched Mintmarks, Over mintmarks, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Varieities have certain diagnostic marks that can be used to attribute particular coins and trace them back to particular dies.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So Errors are not the same as Varieties.&nbsp; Of course, it is possible to have one coin that is both.&nbsp; Let&#039;s say, for example you have a 1995 Doubled Die cent that is struck Off-Center.&nbsp; The variety is the 1995 DDO, the error is that it is struck Off-center.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some may argue that the mistake in the process of creating a die that results in a doubled die would make coins struck by that die errors.&nbsp; That is not the case.&nbsp; Once the die is made, there was a mistake in the making of the die.&nbsp; When that die strikes several coins, a variety is created.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other note,&nbsp; die breaks or chips may be used as diagnostics to attribute a variety but the die being cracked as it strikes a coin is an error.&nbsp; How&#039;s that?&nbsp; Clear as mud? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have Fun,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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