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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 257152, member: 4552"]Classifications  such as varieties and error coins are rather ambiguous. Never really clear to many people. At coin shows there is one dealer I see at all shows with a table of all errors or so they say. They have massive varieties of errors such as offsets, blanks, double dies, blobs or cuds, chips, laminations, etc. None are called varieties, all are to them errors. To many errors are what is not supposed to be. Varieties are considered by most that I have talked to as differences in the actual coins. Such things as the Indian/Buffalo Nickels variety 1 and 2. Those are actual Varieties to most dealers I know. In the Red Book at or near the end there is a list of different types of errors and double dies is not listed as an error. All very comfusing. However, all error type coins have lately become a thing to collect and there are many that are considered error collectors. If you go to coin shows or look on ebay you would now see that the slightest error on a coin is selling for a minimum of $2 to $10. I've seen obsets that are so minimal I would have thrown it back into circulation and now is selling for $2. As already noted a variety is when the same thing is produced multiple times by the Mint. However, that is where coins such as the 72 Lincoln Cents Double Die has been noticed with a minimum of 9 varieties of errors. Some call it a spear and some call it an arrow.[/QUOTE]