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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 442852, member: 6036&quot;]Good point.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To me, <b>an overdate is never an error</b> because it was intentional. Premeditated. They knew what they were doing when they did it.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were reusing old dies because making new ones was so labor-intensive.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Perhaps it&#039;s best to take &quot;errors&quot; and break out those due to deteriorating dies conditions. i.e. die breaks and cuds are different from off center strikes, brockages, etc. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With the former, there are many coins identical or almost identical, and we can trace the die states as the die continues to break down.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With the latter, they are &quot;one off&quot;. Unique and individual.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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