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<p>[QUOTE="Inspector43, post: 25368711, member: 89213"]This is an interesting discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears to me that they would have been “rejected” by Quality Control. There are typically 4 criteria that a finished product must meet. There is Design Criteria (what are the fitness for purpose attributes), Manufacturing Criteria (what parameters must be held in order to manufacture with current capabilities), Customer Criteria (does it meet customer expectations) and Management Criteria (in this case, what does the US Mint want released to circulation).</p><p><br /></p><p>If any of these criteria are not met is the product an “error” or simply an “unacceptable manufacturing variance”? In manufacturing individual parts or even a production run may be classified as not fit for use and be rejected. These same pieces may be described by collectors as errors if they made it to circulation. To me the pieces in question are scrap and become interesting discussion items if they don’t make it to circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Inspector43, post: 25368711, member: 89213"]This is an interesting discussion. It appears to me that they would have been “rejected” by Quality Control. There are typically 4 criteria that a finished product must meet. There is Design Criteria (what are the fitness for purpose attributes), Manufacturing Criteria (what parameters must be held in order to manufacture with current capabilities), Customer Criteria (does it meet customer expectations) and Management Criteria (in this case, what does the US Mint want released to circulation). If any of these criteria are not met is the product an “error” or simply an “unacceptable manufacturing variance”? In manufacturing individual parts or even a production run may be classified as not fit for use and be rejected. These same pieces may be described by collectors as errors if they made it to circulation. To me the pieces in question are scrap and become interesting discussion items if they don’t make it to circulation.[/QUOTE]
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