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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 922563, member: 66&quot;]Yes, the number of major error coins has declined greatly in recent years.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For errors that result from or create off size errors the addition of extra passes through the riddlers has resulted in a great reduction in these errors getting out.&nbsp; Also the government now requires errors that they miss but which are caught at the coin rolling facilities such as Brinks etc to be returned to the Mint.&nbsp; In the past the rolling facility personnel were allowed to buy them at face value and they were the source of a lot of the errors in the marketplace.&nbsp; Now the official government stance is that until the new coin is actually released to the banks they are the property of the United States Government and rolling personnel exchanging for them are stealing government property.</p><p><br /></p><p>For errors that do not result in a off size such and doubled dies, die cracks, die breaks etc, the coins as they are struck fall into a holding hopper and the press operator is supposed to examine handfuls from time to time checking for errors or other problems.&nbsp; If he finds one the press is stopped and the problem corrected.&nbsp; The coins in the hopper are condemned.&nbsp; If he doesn&#039;t find anything then he dumps the holding hopper into the main hopper and production continues.&nbsp; In theory this allows errors to be caught sooner an the errors destroyed before the have a chance to mix in with the general production.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t follow them that much but I do like the 2009-D Duke Ellington doubled die quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t collect them but I do like them.&nbsp; Studying them can teach us more about the minting process, and a good understanding of that process can help in the identification of fakes, and fake errors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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