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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 443339, member: 66&quot;]The 1844 cents were dated sing a four digit logotype punch so all four digits werepunched inat the same time.&nbsp; Technically it is an 1844/4481&nbsp; The puch was placed on the ie upside down anlightly punched, th mistake was noted and the punch inverted to teh correct position and then solidly punched in.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>None of these were a case of reusing old dies.&nbsp; The obverse dies had never been hardened or put into use before they were overdated.&nbsp; They were unhadened dies left over at the end of th year that wee redated then hardened and put nto use.&nbsp; Hardened ies left over at the end of the year were jut used as they were until the dies wore out even though the date was wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Error specialists consier a variety to be a difference, usually slight, occurring in the die with these differences being present on all coins struck from that die.</p><p><br /></p><p>An error is something that happens during the striking of the coin, or a defect in the planchet that was present before striking.&nbsp; This makes each error coin unique.&nbsp; Damages or changes in the die AFTER it goes into production (cracks cuds, polishing etc) are NOT errors but are die stages.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long ago Alan Herbert came up with the P(lanchet), D(ie), and S(triking) catagorization system for errors but error purists do not recognize Die errors as true errors, but as either varieties or die stages.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This man NEEDS to read Penny Whimsy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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