1916 Buffalo Nickel Mint Error - Very Thin Lamination Loss

So a lamination is considered a mint error rather than just a planchet flaw?

Very nice find.

Hi Frog! There has always been a debate about what is an error coin and how to classify them. Over the last couple years as I've increased my collection of such coins, I have become less of a purist as to calling a coin a mint error. That is, for title and broad purposes, as I am still very keen to understand how such coins came to be and specific error types. Is a Cud not an error? Well some would call it a die event. Still seems like an error coin, so in the end instead of trying to parse things too far I have, for better or worse, mostly lumped things as errors or varieties. So to me, even if a lamination peel falls off the coin a year into circulation, the original error occurred with the planchet so yes, to me, lamination coins are error coins. All defective planchets, to me, are error coins. Yet I know folks who call laminations damaged coins, so I will live and let live and stick with calling them errors myself.