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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 442955, member: 6036"]Good point. Interesting thread. I think some of these things happened because it's difficult to "think backwards", which is what someone is doing when punching numerals into the die. The OP is a great example. The 1/000 thing might have also happened because someone messed up when "thinking backwards". That said, it is still in many ways premeditated. They still made a conscious decision to use the die. A good example is the 1844 / 81 (typically listed for sale as a variety, not an error). They knew the die was faulty, yet they put it in service anyway. Personally, I don't blame 'em. It's possible some dies were put in service before realizing a mistake was made in die prep. It's semantics; ain't no big thing. For me personally, anything which is part of the die is a variety, not an error, regardless how it got there. That's how they're listed at major auction houses (Heritage, Teletrade, etc).[/QUOTE]