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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 775489, member: 4350&quot;]Hi All and....</p><p><br /></p><p>Hello Mike M <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As I search through thousands of coins each week,&nbsp; I will usually find several die varieties.&nbsp; I find more of them in boxes of half dollar coins than just about any other type of coin.&nbsp; There are many more doubled dies to be found than the 1974 D DDO that everyone seems to know about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Errors don&#039;t turn up as often any more.&nbsp; Years ago, (1999 and before) you could find a fair number of errors in the bags of coins that were produced by the Mints.&nbsp; After 2000 when the coins began to be wrapped by private companies, error coins became less plentiful to the roll searcher.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint had better filtering systems and the counting companies filtered out more errors before they could get into a roll of coins.&nbsp; Unstruck Planchets were &quot;findable&quot; in rolls but most other errors ended up being found by the counting companies and then sold to error specialists , on the side.</p><p><br /></p><p>So...many die varieties are able to be found while few errors can be found in rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bill O&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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