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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1197440, member: 19423&quot;]PCGS refers to these as &quot;mechanical errors.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you want it fixed, you can send it off to PCGS and they will fix it for you at no charge.&nbsp; No promises, but I&#039;ve had them fix mechanical errors for me in the past and they even paid for shipping both ways.&nbsp; Think about it, if it&#039;s a big enough error (which it was in my case - a potential $100,000+ error) they will go out of their way to fix the issue.&nbsp; In my case I also received several free submissions which was nice.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In your case, it seems like a minor error, but I&#039;m sure they&#039;d fix it for you if you wanted to.&nbsp; For a slab collector there may be a little bit of extra value in owning the slab as an error, but maybe only a few bucks at the most.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s not just PCGS that messes up from time to time... I&#039;ve seen plenty of mechanical errors on NGC coins as well.&nbsp; Many times the error isn&#039;t by the company, but it&#039;s by the submitter.&nbsp; If the person submitting the coin writes 1984-P on the form, that is how it&#039;s logged into their system and if the graders don&#039;t catch that it&#039;s a 1983-P, then you&#039;ll get an incorrect label.&nbsp; But yeah, the graders are still partly to blame for not catching it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The most frequent slab errors I&#039;ve seen are missing the mintmarks on Standing Liberty Quarters (as noted by Searcher), missing the &quot;VDB&quot; on 1909 Lincolns and 1909-S Lincolns, and just messing up modern commemoratives in general (sometimes the wrong date, sometimes the wrong mintmark, sometimes the wrong type of coin altogether).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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