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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2301248, member: 24314"]It's very easy and I'll bet it happens a lot.  If you are not looking at a coin closely.  TPG's need to push out product.  Individual graders miss rim files, Double Dies, and even 1911-D "weak D" specimens.  Let's turn this around.  I'll bet we should all be surprised at the number of 1911-P's sent in by collectors as "weak D" coins...LOL.  In a perfect world, no slabs would get out with "input error" labels either.  Can't all the professionals tell 1892 dime from an 1892 Morgan.  It's the same thing.  Graders are human.  Many of the coins they miss are cherrypicked anyway so be happy that accidents happen and some collectors benefit. I need to add a funny story to this and it is true.  At one major convention we walked by the PCGS table and they had one NGC $$ coin slabbed with the wrong date (mechanical/input error) displayed all by itself on black velvet in the center of the case.  I don't recall if the card with it said "Not for Sale" or what.  We talked to the person behind the table (don't remember the conversation) but he was cocky about the error.  My friend and I left and in less than fifteen minutes returned with a PCGS slab Morgan with the wrong date to show him.  I would make a good story if PCGS took that display down but I honestly don't remember what happened.[/QUOTE]