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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3144712, member: 46237&quot;]Absolutely. Both of those scenarios have happened many times.</p><p><br /></p><p>What about an instance where the mint deliberately employs an unintended die pairing out of necessity? If only a few examples are known (such as the Washington/Sacagawea reverse dollar) it&#039;s considered to be an error (or variety) - but what if they made 10,000 of them deliberately due to a lack of dies, as was frequently the case with classic mules? Does that make a difference?</p><p><br /></p><p>What if one of the dies was not intended for pairing with the other, but they were from the same denomination/type? Generally these are considered to be varieties - coins that have the &quot;reverse of&quot; an atypical date, but aren&#039;t those mules as well?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re looking at a coin catalog, how would you want to see known mules represented (if at all)?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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