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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7801117, member: 10461"]Learning to tell the difference between an error that happened <b>at</b> the mint during the manufacturing process- which <i>sometimes</i> carries a premium- is often difficult for novices to distinguish from coins with <i>post</i>-mint damage (PMD), which happened <b>outside</b> the mint, and which detracts from the value.</p><p><br /></p><p>All I can say is that it takes learning. Learning the different types of errors and how they happen- and what they do and don’t look like (by looking at a lot of genuine error coins) is the way to do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could learn a lot about that right here on the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/forums/error-coins/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/forums/error-coins/">Errors forum</a>, though you’ll need to remember that that forum is chock full of other novices who do not know what they have, either. So take what people there say with a grain of salt, unless it comes from a knowledgeable source. [USER=86437]@Fred Weinberg[/USER] is one of the most recognized experts. Locally on this site, [USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER] is a knowledgeable collector of error coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7801117, member: 10461"]Learning to tell the difference between an error that happened [B]at[/B] the mint during the manufacturing process- which [I]sometimes[/I] carries a premium- is often difficult for novices to distinguish from coins with [I]post[/I]-mint damage (PMD), which happened [B]outside[/B] the mint, and which detracts from the value. All I can say is that it takes learning. Learning the different types of errors and how they happen- and what they do and don’t look like (by looking at a lot of genuine error coins) is the way to do that. You could learn a lot about that right here on the [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/forums/error-coins/']Errors forum[/URL], though you’ll need to remember that that forum is chock full of other novices who do not know what they have, either. So take what people there say with a grain of salt, unless it comes from a knowledgeable source. [USER=86437]@Fred Weinberg[/USER] is one of the most recognized experts. Locally on this site, [USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER] is a knowledgeable collector of error coins.[/QUOTE]
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