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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 209638, member: 669&quot;]As n_sandler4 said, the &quot;upside down&quot; edges are not an error, and by the same token the random positions of the edge lettering with respect to the face/tail strikes are neither errors nor varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are dumped into a hopper after being struck, and the edge lettering machine gets them in a totally random fashion, so there is absolutely no right or wrong orientation, <b>or</b> position of the edge lettering with respect to the top of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arguably the up/down orientation may constitute a variety as there are only two distinct possibilities and the overall distribution is somewhere in the neighborhoold of 50-50.</p><p><br /></p><p>With hundreds of possible starting points for the edge lettering (360 if you count the number of degrees from top dead center to the starting point, more if you consider smaller increments and less if you consider larger increments) there&#039;s no way that they can be considered separate varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I&#039;m <b>not</b> talking about the true error coins where there is incorrect spacing, dropped letters, or extra letters.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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