Do you think the mint makes errors to keep the coin hobby chase going.

YaHa

New president dollars, Washington, Adams, now Monroe?, Then you have a few statehood quarter errors, what's next. I even see US note errors. I think it is for the new and old collectors to get in the chase for the hobby. No so for the flippers, they seem to set the price for each and every error.

What do you think?

Griv

That would require them having a brain so the answer is no.

holeinone1972

Yes

ahooka454

No. Was this always the case. Probably not. They are a factory. Granted a coin factory. They are always going to have errors in the manufacturing of their product. Are some helped along the way? Yes. I would believe to some degree they are in some cases.

charley

I don't think it would be very logical to do so. I would concur that this was done by employees in the past for personal gain, but I think that with security and accounting factors in place in the modern age that any errors are just a quality control issue. Respectfully, John Curlis

ctf_error_coins

NO!!!!

People make mistakes and machines break, that is all.

ErrorsOnCoins

Broadstruck

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Baley

Nice to see you post a thread that is on topic.

my answer is Yes, they absolutely do allow manufacture of errors and varieties on purpose

gecko109

You go make a few billion of anything per year, and let me know if there are any mistakes.

charley

Baley, with Respect, who would the "they" be? Any attempt to create an error for personal gain would have to have the consent and partnership of any persson involved in the process, I would think. Greed would be the endgame factor. At some point,someone would bring the facts to an appropriate authority. If Supervisory level employees were involved in an effort to boost the numismatic purchases, the Beltway reporting community would have it published on the front page of the Washington Post. It would be impossible to keep it a secret. JMHO. With Courtesy and Without Malice, John Curlis

Steve27

No, but that doesn't mean that a Mint worker doesn't want to have a little fun on occasion.

cladking

No. Absolutely not.

If they wanted to promote the hobby they'd have short mint runs and contrived rarities. They wouldn't
have continued 1974 coin dating into 1975 so scarce '75 coinage would exist. They've had numerous op-
portunities to do such things and haven't.

Errors tend to be an embarrassment to them and there have been so many different types in the last
decade because they've used so very many different dies and planchets. Many of the press runs are
brief and by the time they get used to doing something right it's expired and time to move on.

Moki

<< <i>No, but that doesn't mean that a Mint worker doesn't want to have a little fun on occasion. >>


Ditto

BBN

No, I think their pursuit to create as many things as possible in the hundreds of millions in haste is what causes errors

FLBuffaloHunter

No, Mint errors are just what the name implies, a random annomaly of the production process. However sometimes the random occurance gets a little help in occuring not so randomly without the Mint's consent