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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4854936, member: 66&quot;]Probably until the early 1970s most collectors probably had no good idea exactly how coins were made and what the processes were.&nbsp; Collecting errors and/or varieties was not a popular part of the hobby and most people weren&#039;t interested in learning about them.&nbsp; Hence the common name for such coins was FIDO&#039;s Freaks Irregular Defective Oddities.&nbsp; So when an error was described no standard terms were used.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Back in 1929 when Beistle was describing half dollar varieties he would find that some examples of a variety would have certain marks on them and he knew it wasn&#039;t something that happened in circulation because he would hve multiple examples with the same marks.&nbsp; He called them Acki-defects.&nbsp; In the early 60&#039;s coins with such marks were called &quot;Suction Marks&quot; and the explanation was that the &quot;incredible suction created when the coin came off the die sucked the design features of the other side right through the coin.&nbsp; Today we call them die clash marks.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was just a matter of learning more and more about the actual minting process which has allowed us to refine the terms over the years to increase their precision.&nbsp; Some of the early pioneers in the field in the 60&#039;s and 70s were Mort Reed, Arnold Margolis, and Lonesome John Divine.</p><p><br /></p><p>As much as we laugh at Frank Spadone today over his book, it was one of the first books to try to catalog known errors and varieties, and though we know today that much of what he had in there was wrong, and he was fooled by a some coins that were just damaged, he was a pioneer who was trying to figure it out as he went along.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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