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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 3107437, member: 78298&quot;]Things like that you need to be a little skeptical first, until it&#039;s proven to be something.</p><p>Now there are legitimate coins that have other numbers on them. Either from clashed dies, or double struck or whatever.</p><p>But when you see something like this, it&#039;s just a coincidence that you can see the number 5 on there. It&#039;s not any kind of true mint error.</p><p>An error is something that happens at the mint. They are supposed to have QC and destroy errors that they find before they go to circulation, but some still get out.</p><p>Damage occurs after something has left the mint.</p><p>In this case, seeing something that sort of looks like a 5 on a coin that isn&#039;t really there, is what is known as pareidolia. Which has been explained here before. And in this thread. Don&#039;t be upset. But true errors are very rare among the billions of coins that have been produced. It&#039;s unlikely to pick up a handful of coins and find an error.</p><p>You Tube videos which get thousands of views, give people the perception</p><p>that there are million dollar errors in the change in their pocket. There really isn&#039;t. Yes there are errors. Yes they are valuable. Super difficult to find one&nbsp; in circulation. It happens. But it&#039;s a needle in a haystack.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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