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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 26314880, member: 74863&quot;]Hopefully this will help you. I included a few errors that you didn’t mention but it should help. A cud is a die break that is attached to the rim of the coin. I have several but I don’t have a photo of one. They can be large or small in size. They start small and grow as the die is being used. They appear as a blob of raised, rounded metal.</p><p>A die crack is where the die has cracked and it too grows with use of the die. A die crack will be raised as metal flows into the die crack and is transferred to the planchet when it’s being struck.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1680132[/ATTACH] </p><p>A die crack can occur anywhere on the coin and they can be any length. This one goes from Lincoln’s hair to the rim. A die crack can also be rim to rim but not in all cases as my coin shows.</p><p>This coin is a lamination error. You can see the metal on the coins surface has split open. This is an attached lamination but they can also be detached when a piece of the coins surface is missing. It is not a die crack as it’s not raised.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1680130[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is an incomplete planchet. Sometimes they are called clips but the correct term is incomplete planchet. They can be any size and occur anywhere on the edge of the coin. A percentage is assign to the missing part. I have included two types for your understanding.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1680131[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1680134[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is an off center strike. Totally different from a ridge ring, which is very common and caused by a worn die. Again, an off center strike can be any size and percentages are assigned to them. They can also be double or triple strikes.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1680133[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1680135[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is a reverse clipped die. It is bowl shaped and it’s on the reverse side of the coin. They can be on with side. This one is also a graded and slabbed coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1680136[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1680137[/ATTACH] </p><p>There are many types of mint errors. Some are common, others are readily available and some are rare. These errors can occur on any denomination. For instance, I have a Kennedy Half Dollar with 3 clips. Clips can be round, the most common, followed by a straight clip and the most difficult to find is a ragged clip. All are correctly called incomplete planchet errors. </p><p>Hope this help you. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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