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What is a Mint Error?
Mint errors cover a wide swath of various mishaps and calamities that occur during some part of the minting process and leaves evidence on a stuck coin.
Errors are diagnosed by an examiner (and sometimes by an attributer). Errors are not typically cataloged, unless they are die related such as CUDs and Clashes.
Error coins are defined thru a working knowledge of the minting process - error coins ARE NOT errors on the basis that one cannot explain how a coin was damaged (Post Mint Damage).
A variety is an error and there really is no fully excepted definition that separates them. Varieties are typically related to a die mishap that happened pre installation (like an RPM or doubled die).
Please do your best and post ERROR COINS in this section.
What constitutes an error? Here is a very much simplified list:
Design modifications
Design mistakes
Installation errors
Various die errors
Collar errors
Die modifications
Clashed dies
Die breaks
Striking errors
Mint errors cover a wide swath of various mishaps and calamities that occur during some part of the minting process and leaves evidence on a stuck coin.
Errors are diagnosed by an examiner (and sometimes by an attributer). Errors are not typically cataloged, unless they are die related such as CUDs and Clashes.
Error coins are defined thru a working knowledge of the minting process - error coins ARE NOT errors on the basis that one cannot explain how a coin was damaged (Post Mint Damage).
A variety is an error and there really is no fully excepted definition that separates them. Varieties are typically related to a die mishap that happened pre installation (like an RPM or doubled die).
Please do your best and post ERROR COINS in this section.
What constitutes an error? Here is a very much simplified list:
Design modifications
Design mistakes
Installation errors
Various die errors
Collar errors
Die modifications
Clashed dies
Die breaks
- CUDs
- Die chips (often minor)
- Die cracks
- Clips
- Thin or thick planchettes
- Annealing
- Plating
- Clad errors
Striking errors
- Unstruck
- MADs
- Collar errors
- Weak strikes
- Machine doubling (VERY STRONG)
- Off center
- Broadstrikes
- Multi struck
- Indents
- Die caps
- Struck thrus
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