Lincoln is missing his Ear! 1971-D 1C

[Conan62]

Made you look right? Anyway, I hope humor is acceptable in this forum. Honestly, is this a grease die issue? I would like to make a suggestion to the admin of this forum. Serious newbies like myself have literally 1000 questions that sometimes research doesn’t answer or makes even less sense because of conflicting information. What about a simple question and answer forum? Coneca is awesome and the experts are awesome Pleasant and polite. Simple things like why is the spread acceptable for a double die? What is a spread? What constitutes spread? Why does thickness constitute doubling? Anyway just a thought I appreciate all of you

[MintErrors]

In my opinion, on any forum, not all answers may be correct.
I am not a CONECA staff member, but I spend a fair amount of time on here.

It evolves on personal research. Those questions are probably answered correctly out there. People in general want the easy way out. They want to strike a personal conversation. But is the source reliable ?

Some people may ask the question, have you attempted to research these questions on your favorite search engine ?

A person can take those questions and come to a forum and hope they get the right answer.

Forums do offer a search function, but many don't use its power.

Questions and answer areas aren't designed to know what the next question might be and one would have to guess at what question is next. They'd only have to type it once, which may take a very long time, rather than answer the same questions thousands of times.

Error coins might be loosely bundled together, called errors, but they are broken into two categories, errors and varieties. If you look just at this forum, that simple bit, you'll see a scattering of listed questions on coins clearly in wrong categories. That's on each individual poster.

Research, finding accurate reliable sources, comprehension and logically thinking through the minting process is all key.

There are plenty of books out there to assist for most general questions. The error Encyclopedia by Arnold Margolis is one of them. As error books get expensive, one can either foot the bill for a great reference, or learn by making several bad experiences and paying for it that way. It depends what people want in life. Everyone is different, so it depends on that person's drive and desires.

[Conan62]

Thanks Gary for great info (as always). As I see it Errors are subjective and examples vary tremendously. I have read "look for the extra sarif", others disregard the "extra sarif". I may be wrong but I understand Wexler, and a few others confirm the errors (correct me if I am wrong). Since Wexler has a website I try to follow their direction when I find a coin that I want to diagnose, but it isn't easy as SOME the photos depicting errors I would pass over in a second on a coin. I just don't see it. I will take your advise and get the book. I have a 3 month stretch with little to do, it will keep me busy.
Thanks again!