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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ClairHardesty, post: 1305478, member: 34169&quot;]The mint won&#039;t acknowledge varieties if this nature. The 2008/7 issue was a matter of a completely different design being used where not intended. Minor differences in the details of tail feathers won&#039;t be recognized by the mint unless it can be traced to a design change (whether it was implemented on purpose or by mistake). If the mint didn&#039;t change the design, if the variety is an artifact the die manufacturing process, the mint won&#039;t get involved unless the artifact is major (like the 1955 dd cent) and then they will only acknowledge that it is genuine, that it came from the mint. Varieties that arise out of work done to touch up a die before use are simply part of the normal process. As a matter of fact, each and every die is slightly different, chaos at work. When those differences result in a visible, repeatable, attribute of the coins minted, a minor variety is born. This type of variety is probably limited to coins minted from a single die pair and therefore of fairly limited population. If however, it was an interim piece that was reworked to extend its life or simply make it usable in the first place (a working hub or master hub), the change may well be incremental, affecting all die and coins from that point on. I am reasonably certain that we are not looking at a design change here.</p><p><br /></p><p>The TPGs aren&#039;t really in the variety investigation business, no matter what their service descriptions might elude to, it is not a particularly profitable enterprise. An article by a variety/error expert (someone like Mike Diamond for example), published in a widely read e/maga-zine (like the article that MD put in the Feb 14 Coin World about my error coin) should be enough to have a variety acknowledged by at least some TPGs. Often, however, a TPG won&#039;t acknowledge minor varieties unless or until they can see a profit in doing so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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