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<p>[QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 528963, member: 16510"]<b>Minor errors are everywhere, good one much harder now.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Minor errors are everywhere, good one much harder now.</p><p>If you really want to search for errors buy bulk, bags, rolls, accumulations of stuff nobody else wants to go through. Get these at shops, shows and estates. Searching modern stuff is going to leave you frustrated. There is just not but a fraction (of errors) coming out of the mint anymore as there once was. Reasons for this include but are not limited to bulk shipments of coins to the Fed. No more mom and pop banks process their own anymore and the shear number of them has been dramatically reduced since about the mid 1990's through much better screening.</p><p>Once we bought and sold off center and double stuck BU Lincolns for a couple of dollars now they are much more.</p><p>One more truth - the smaller the coin the more likely to find errors but the smaller the coin the smaller the error will be - it is much harder to find a half dollar with a big error as compared to to a dime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 528963, member: 16510"][b]Minor errors are everywhere, good one much harder now.[/b] Minor errors are everywhere, good one much harder now. If you really want to search for errors buy bulk, bags, rolls, accumulations of stuff nobody else wants to go through. Get these at shops, shows and estates. Searching modern stuff is going to leave you frustrated. There is just not but a fraction (of errors) coming out of the mint anymore as there once was. Reasons for this include but are not limited to bulk shipments of coins to the Fed. No more mom and pop banks process their own anymore and the shear number of them has been dramatically reduced since about the mid 1990's through much better screening. Once we bought and sold off center and double stuck BU Lincolns for a couple of dollars now they are much more. One more truth - the smaller the coin the more likely to find errors but the smaller the coin the smaller the error will be - it is much harder to find a half dollar with a big error as compared to to a dime.[/QUOTE]
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