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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 836766, member: 16510&quot;]To address your question more specifically, no, the mint does not ever make errors to increase sales or interest, they don&#039;t need to.&nbsp; On this point I agree with what Mr. Gasparro said in &quot;The Autoritive Reference on Lincoln Cent, Wexler&quot;, &quot;The mint was a factory&quot; and it still is a factory.&nbsp; They want to make as many coins as possible with as few errors as possible with as little cost as possible.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The presidential dollars edge lettering was new in modern times so mistakes were bound to happen.&nbsp; Really the doubled lettering and and missing lettering though valued by many is a simple error and has little to do in relation to importance to say doubled dies.&nbsp; They are not even in the same ballpark IMO.&nbsp; The 2010 date on a 2009 coins is a rariety because that&#039;s a major mistake,&nbsp; That one&#039;s embarresing to the mint&#039;s quality control - they plain ole fasion do not like that and I&#039;d say a head or two has rolled for that one already.</p><p>With the factionals as with not minting proof AE&#039;s last year I just think those decisions are made arbitarily with little regard for collectors interest at all - this is what bothers me more that than anything because they just simply did not care about us.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to think they have the brains to both do a thing that says they don&#039;t care about collectors on the one hand and that they were trying to drive up interest on the other.&nbsp; I worked for them (Govt. agencys) for thirty years - they ain&#039;t that smart.</p><p>Plus they don&#039;t lack for buisness as far as I can see.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The fact is The Mint makes billons of items with a tiny fraction of errors rivaling any other manufactoring facility in the world.</p><p>They don&#039;t want mistakes of any kind and mistakes are an embaresment when found and popularized.</p><p>They don&#039;t need errors to sell coins - they do just fine with or without them.</p><p>But they are a Govt. agency and they will deny mistakes or erroes until there is no other alternative all day long.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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