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<p>[QUOTE="ajm229, post: 65378, member: 3350"]Excellent point. I collect all denominations of US coins from 1900 to 2000; a 20th century set, if you will. Your point is well made that the quality control processes were nearly nonexistant in the time period you have chosen to focus on, and my comments remain strictly for the time frame that I'm working on.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would say that the mint employees not doing their jobs properly is an error on their part for failure to catch coins with what I would deem errors. Also, if they are purposefully allowing them to go out because they decide to be lax in their QC, I would deem that to be ignorance on their parts. Ignorance is, in the dictionary definition, one of the factors making something an error. As for employees smuggling out "error" coins, I would see it as being "an act that through... deficiency [on the part of the employees to be honest and on the part of mint employers to catch them]... fails to achieve what achieve what should be done [i.e. not making said errors]."</p><p><br /></p><p>Wow.... I really do wound like a lawyer. I'm incollege right now and all my friends and family keep telling me I ought to be a lawyer someday! Although, I am going into politics, so that isn't much better! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ajm229, post: 65378, member: 3350"]Excellent point. I collect all denominations of US coins from 1900 to 2000; a 20th century set, if you will. Your point is well made that the quality control processes were nearly nonexistant in the time period you have chosen to focus on, and my comments remain strictly for the time frame that I'm working on. I would say that the mint employees not doing their jobs properly is an error on their part for failure to catch coins with what I would deem errors. Also, if they are purposefully allowing them to go out because they decide to be lax in their QC, I would deem that to be ignorance on their parts. Ignorance is, in the dictionary definition, one of the factors making something an error. As for employees smuggling out "error" coins, I would see it as being "an act that through... deficiency [on the part of the employees to be honest and on the part of mint employers to catch them]... fails to achieve what achieve what should be done [i.e. not making said errors]." Wow.... I really do wound like a lawyer. I'm incollege right now and all my friends and family keep telling me I ought to be a lawyer someday! Although, I am going into politics, so that isn't much better! :D :cool:[/QUOTE]
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