Big difference between Blazed's coin, and the examples with public keys not lining up to hologram windows, IMO. With the holo window, you know thats how they left Mike. Its not possible to be 100% for the series 1 coin.
Agreed. Most of mine are S1, and I have seen it; however, it can't be listed as an error since anyway can simply erase a character.
ANACS will list the full public key on the slab, even if the full key isnt visible, if you can show them that the full key can be uniquely inferred .... ie you can see 7 of 8 characters, and even with just those 7, using a search on uberbills (or the casascius fulllist.txt), the full public key is the only one with those first 7.
It takes an emailed explanation to ANACS (and I include a print out of that email with the physical shipment) detailing all of the above. Hopefully they will then print all 8 chars on there. I have also managed to get them to do a reslab of a coin like this very recently (first came back with 7 chars, then reslabbed with 8, following explanation given).
In my experience, this is not correct and may have been an exception for you.
I specifically provide a printed and emailed list each time I submit coins. The list shows full information (prefix, public key, funding day, year, demon, etc) including what I want said on the case. Each time I get my coins, they still do it slightly diff. I have even had to send coins back to have them re-case cause I wanted it to say GILT instead of Gold Trim. They were also saying "with 'Casacius'" instead of the serial/prefix. I know they use my printed list or at least look at it, because they check off each coin (not simply make (for example) 10 checks for 10 coins, but 1 at a time because the checks were diff orientation, etc).
I guess nothing is perfect.
