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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1261425, member: 29751"]<span style="color: #0000cd"><b>PCGS has built a fortune by creating the illusion that the Position A and Position B coins are different in some way. </b></span><i><b><span style="color: #b22222">They are not.</span></b></i> The only coins which would be considered "errors" because of the position of the lettering would be the proof coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Business and Satin strike Presidential (and Native American) dollars have random application of the edge lettering. That process is separate from the striking process, and there is no reason to believe that either "type" should be more or less common than the other. BUT, nonetheless, the "complete" PCGS registry sets require both A&B coins, whereas the NGC sets do not differentiate the position of the edge lettering in either their registry sets or in the slab labeling. </p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>FYI:</b> As is stated above, the proof process for edge lettering is different. The edge lettering and the strike of the obverse and reverse are all done at the same time. Thus, if a proof coin is minted with the edge lettering upside down, then someone didn't do their job in positioning the edge lettering die correctly. On another and similar note, there are some proof presidential dollars with edge lettering out of the correct order. When the presidential dollars were first introduced, the edge lettering die was constructed of three separate pieces. If they were inserted in the incorrect order, then the order of the inscription was incorrect. No one has paid much attention to that error, but it is an interesting little tid-bit. The edge dies are still made of three separate pieces, but they have altered the die pieces so that they only fit together in one way (like puzzle pieces sort of).</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1261425, member: 29751"][COLOR=#0000cd][B]PCGS has built a fortune by creating the illusion that the Position A and Position B coins are different in some way. [/B][/COLOR][I][B][COLOR=#b22222]They are not.[/COLOR][/B][/I] The only coins which would be considered "errors" because of the position of the lettering would be the proof coins. Business and Satin strike Presidential (and Native American) dollars have random application of the edge lettering. That process is separate from the striking process, and there is no reason to believe that either "type" should be more or less common than the other. BUT, nonetheless, the "complete" PCGS registry sets require both A&B coins, whereas the NGC sets do not differentiate the position of the edge lettering in either their registry sets or in the slab labeling. [I][B]FYI:[/B] As is stated above, the proof process for edge lettering is different. The edge lettering and the strike of the obverse and reverse are all done at the same time. Thus, if a proof coin is minted with the edge lettering upside down, then someone didn't do their job in positioning the edge lettering die correctly. On another and similar note, there are some proof presidential dollars with edge lettering out of the correct order. When the presidential dollars were first introduced, the edge lettering die was constructed of three separate pieces. If they were inserted in the incorrect order, then the order of the inscription was incorrect. No one has paid much attention to that error, but it is an interesting little tid-bit. The edge dies are still made of three separate pieces, but they have altered the die pieces so that they only fit together in one way (like puzzle pieces sort of).[/I][/QUOTE]
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