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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Flute, post: 4818851, member: 33154&quot;]Rare and error are not mutually exclusive terms in coin collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can have a rare error and a common error, but really these &#039;close&#039; or &#039;wide&#039; AMs are not an &#039;error&#039;.&nbsp; They are &#039;varieties&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>An error is literally an accident during production that puts a coin outside the designed production parameters.</p><p><br /></p><p>A die variety (which these are) is something done purposely by Mint staff for certain reasons (ie use the proof dies for business strikes for cost savings, etc) and the minted coin is still within accepted production design parameters.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for whether the 84 Lincoln close AM is a rare variety, I don&#039;t know as I don&#039;t follow these.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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