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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 25967446, member: 27832&quot;]To me, a &quot;variety&quot; reflects something that happened to a <i>die</i>, so that multiple similar or identical copies could exist. An &quot;error&quot; is something that happened before or during striking to an <i>individual planchet</i> (or a blank) - incomplete planchets (&quot;clips&quot;), multiply struck or unstruck coins, strike-throughs, even wrong-planchet errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>This isn&#039;t entirely &quot;complete and consistent&quot;, as the logic folks say. For example:</p><p><br /></p><p>There are multiple bronze 1943 cents, but I consider those errors, not varieties. I think that&#039;s the mainstream view.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are multiple 1913 Liberty nickels, but I consider those to be <i>fraudulent strikes</i>, not errors <i>or</i> varieties. They were made on purpose, when they weren&#039;t supposed to be. The mainstream view disagrees.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mainstream view of &quot;strike doubling&quot; is that it&#039;s damage. I don&#039;t see how you can call that damage, but call a multiply-struck coin (for example, struck once, then struck again off-center) an error.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately, I&#039;m not an authority, so I don&#039;t <i>have</i> to have my story straight. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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