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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pilkenton, post: 836019, member: 23961&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting coins for years and years, but I&#039;m an off and on collector.&nbsp; I&#039;m interested for a while, then I lose interest, only to come back a couple years later.&nbsp; This time when I came back, the first thing I noticed was the unusual amount of error coins being marketed.&nbsp; It reminded me of when I collected sports cards in the early 1990s.&nbsp; You would buy pack after pack, box after box, case after case of cards to look for that elusive &quot;special card&quot; that was worth bookoo bucks, only to look at the ads in the price guide and see dealers selling these special cards by the hundreds.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not convinced that the errors are deliberate.&nbsp; I do know that newer, high speed machinery of any kind creates more mistakes than before because of the need for fewer people to operate, thus fewer eyes to see the errors as they go by.&nbsp; In this day and age, quantity first, quality last. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the coin collecting world should take a new approach to collecting errors.&nbsp; If the mint isn&#039;t worried about these errors, maybe we shouldn&#039;t worry about them so much either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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