Errors Too Easy to Fake

THERE ARE SOME amazing errors when it comes to error-based rarities in different United States coin series. A few are so notable that it is hard to believe they are just the work of some random series of chances. For example, in the past, a few coins have surfaced that were made on blanks intended for a different denomination. While it might have been a simple mistake of feeding coin planchets into some large hopper, this is so dramatic an error that even the least cynical among us must think that someone at the Mint was having a bit of fun at the expense of our hobby.

If errors like mixed planchets or dies are hard to believe, well, there are some easy to believe ones as well. And some of those easy to believe errors