What is an Error Coin?
I am going to go deeper into the world of error coins. Wikepedia has the following definition for an error coin:
Mint-made errors are errors in a coin made by the mint during the minting process. They are almost always accidental and in modern minting are usually very rare, making them valuable to numismatists.
A search on About.com had the following definition:
An error coin is a coin that was improperly made during its manufacture. Also called mint errors, error coins have problems such as being struck off-center, having the wrong planchet type, having the planchets improperly prepared so they are too thick, thin, not properly clad, or any number of other problems that occur during coin manufacturing.
Hang on as we explore the types of errors in the next post.
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