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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bzcollektor, post: 64483, member: 3241&quot;]I go along with nesvt on this. My main focus of collecting is Morgans in general and Vams as a sideline. I consider die cracks/breaks as varieties.</p><p>I also consider Morgans such as the 1878 7/8 TF as varieties and not errors. The 1878 7/8 interesting in that these were deliberately made at the mint to correct the &quot;wrong&quot; 8TF reverse to a &quot;correct&quot; 7TF. The O/CC coins and the various overdates were also deliberately made and released with the full knowledge of mint employees. They had to crank out enormous quantities of dollars under the Bland-Allison and Sherman Acts, sometimes scrambling to scrounge dies to maintain tight production schedules. I would hazard a guess that they thought no one would notice. They surely could not have conceived of the state of collecting today, with every known die pair being aggressively catalogued. I think the consensus in the Vam world is that these are varieties and not errors. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would also use the Capped Bust series of halves as an example. Coins in this series, with its many overdates and other anomalies, are generally known as Overton <i>varieties</i>. I wouldn`t consider any of the Bust half overdates as errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, just what DOES constitute an error? Is the 1942/1 dime, or the 1918-S 8 0ver 7 SLQ an error? Is the 1955 double die indeed an error or just a variety? The mint employees knew about the 1955 double die and released them anyway due to a coin shortage. The waters are indeed muddy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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