ERRORS ERRORS ERRORS ERRORS ERRORS ! ! ! ! Most TRUE collectors love them! I'm not referring to the thousands of virtually worthless minor errors like off center strikes, die cracks, low pressure strikes, or grease filled dies, etc. The only errors that I am referring to are those of major importance, such as legitimate overdates, overmintmarks, and major doubled die coins. I could care less about varieties of the, "Looks Like", or "Believed to Be", or "Under Extreme (100X) Magnification Appears to BE,category! Anyvarietythat isn't EASILYVISIBLE with a loupe, really isn't a major error. This brings me to the point of this review. Why do the album makers and coin book publishers choose to acknowledge only some of the major coin errors, andtotally ignore others?
There are not so many major errors out there that you would have to pick and choose which ones need or don't need to be included. In the entire 20th Century, there are onlyseven VERIFIED overdatecoin varieties- not including gold!There arenone in cents; four in nickels (1914/3, 1914/3-S, 1918/7-D, 1943/2); two in dimes (1942/1, 1942/1-D); and only one inquarters (1918/7-S).
When it gees to overmintmarks, allow me to explain what I mean. An overmintmark means one type of mintmark over another, such as D/S, S/D, O/S, or O/CC, or "D" or "S" or "O"over horizontal or inverted "D" or "S" or "O". Repunched mintmarks, (S/S or D/D, O/O, etc.) are not what I would call an overmintmark. This sort of error occurrs almost every year on almost every denomination of coin. Most repunched mintmarks are gemon, andalthough interesting, usually worthless! The TRUE overmintmarked coins to which I am referring are as follows:
CENTS: 1909-S/ Horiz. S Lincoln; 1922 No"D" Strong Rev.
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