JoePoe23

Agreed but at the end of the day the coin can comeback with an unanticipated grade way below what you have expected. You can then take it out of the slab and send it elsewhere or just assume they just got it right.

A sloppy error.

Nothing I copied your post and pasted it then realised I wanted to quote coinbuf so I thought I deleted it but apparently deleted all but the signature. My bad this time.

@coinbuf I have no stake in this obviously. And to be honest I don't think your point is entirly relevant. Your point would have been much more relevant if the coin was UNC. This coin is already graded AU. So unless you were the one who graded it, who knows whether this led to the error designation or the AU classification. As I said earlier errors and varieties should be left to the grading companies to decide on. In my twenty years of collecting I realised that sending an error for grading is more likely to prove to be a gamble than not. I will look around for some old coins that were almost certain to get a mint error designation and later proved to be a massive disappointment. I have had some successes though so I can't complain.

I just joined the chatboards and was really appalled by this thread. The way i see it is that a question was asked and the answers provided were either incomplete or even misleading. Obviously, he double checked and found evidence to the contrary. In this case its natural and healthy to argue. The liberty dollar in the picture, atleast to me, seems slightly off-centre with the rim going all over the coin and none of the details are omitted as a result of the misalignment. Yet it still is graded as an error by NGC. Having been a collector for more than two decades I can confidently say that a mint error is never a mint error unless it is labeled as an error by a reputable grading company. People do all sort of things to pass their coins as an error. Many experienced dealers paid a premium for errors that end up being faked. I say there is no harm in submitting a potential mint error for grading. Simply as there is no other way to find out. Best of luck. Cheers, Peter