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Is there such a thing as an error bar?

Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
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Picked this up over the weekend:

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"It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool! Looks like the die that stamps the bars clashed against the backing plate because the press cycled without a bar under it.
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,410 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Cool! Looks like the die that stamps the bars clashed against the backing plate because the press cycled without a bar under it. >>



    Cool!!! Clashed dies!!!

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    Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Cool! Looks like the die that stamps the bars clashed against the backing plate because the press cycled without a bar under it. >>



    Wow, thanks for the info, I wondered how it could happen.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's pretty neat. Here's my error bar. Dropped serial number:
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    Here's how the rest of those bars looked:

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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
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