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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 214824, member: 112"]OK, wait a minute - think about what you are saying. You are using the logic that because the damage is in roughly the same place on the coins that it has to be a mint error. But knowing what we know about how these coins are struck - how can that be so ? The coins are not struck with any particular orientation of the planchet to the obverse/reverse dies - we know that. We also know that the coins are not going into the edge die with any particular orientation in regard to the design on the obverse/reverse. We know that they are not going into the edge die with any particular orientation in regard to the coin being obverse up or down. In other words - we know that the way the coin is struck in all regards is purely random - a matter of chance. So how in the world does the gouge being in the same place on the coin make it a mint error ? By your logic, for the gouge to be in the same place every time - the coin would have to go through some part of the striking process with the coin oriented in exactly the same postion - every time. But we know it isn't ? See what I mean.[/QUOTE]