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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 25995690, member: 4626&quot;]This might not be the &quot;official&quot; definition, but to me in order to be an error it has to be more than just unintentional; it has to be something, that if a Mint employee were to look at it, would decide it&#039;s defective and reject it from being put into circulation (but they just missed it because they mint coins in the millions, billions these days, and can&#039;t possibly catch everything).&nbsp; That&#039;s why for example, I don&#039;t call a 1922 plain Lincoln an &quot;error&quot; because they just didn&#039;t care that the D mintmark that should have been there wasn&#039;t.&nbsp; So I wouldn&#039;t say the 3-legged counts as an &quot;error&quot; by that definition.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also think an error should be genuinely accidental, which is why I don&#039;t think things like &quot;Eisenhower dollar struck on 3 dime planchets&quot; should count because nobody can convince me that happened accidentally!&nbsp; That&#039;s a federal crime where the perpetrators just didn&#039;t get caught.&nbsp; (1913 Liberty head nickels fall into this category for me.&nbsp; As would &quot;extra-leaf&quot; Wisconsin quarters; that wasn&#039;t an accident and nobody can convince me otherwise.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So my definition of an error: a coin accidentally made in a way that would get it rejected for circulation if a Mint employee examined it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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