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Fabricated Error.  A counterfeit error coin; made outside a mint in imitation of a mint-made error. These are sold to unsuspecting collectors by unscrupulous swindlers.

excerpted with permission from

An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

Roger W. Burdette, Editor