Missing "L" in Liberty

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Ok, I was checking my change from lunch today and I found a 2001 cent missing the "L". Take a look and see what you think ...making sure you see what I see. And if it is any gurus give me a guesstimation on value?

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Until someone pipes in - I searched the net and found it was common. Some contribute it to die deterioration...ridge of sorts parallel to the rim of the coin and will often cause parts of the letter "L" to vanish...
 

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Well dern
 

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looks more worn off to me than missing.. Just my opinion
 

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The camera makes it look that way under magnification u can see its missing no little abrasion to indicate that
 

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Another find this evening the E in liberty is leaning to the right

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I am new to this so these are exciting to me, it may be intrinsic value but I never thought I'd find errors myself.
 

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Looks like a 'filled die struck through grease' error coin--like here:
[h=2]Coin Value | Filled Die Struck Through Grease[/h] Don.....

I agree that the partial missing "L" in LIBERTY was the result from a grease filled die! The striations which most folks think is wear, are actually from heavy Die polish marks where the Die was too agressively resurfaced between uses.


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If a coin is struck while elements of the design are clogged, a common error is created known as a struck through grease type. Sometimes, the grease mixture becomes hard and compact through hundreds of strikes, is jarred loose and falls onto the planchet. When the coin is struck, a perfect letter, number or other feature is incuse into the coin.

The dropped letter can fall onto either side of the coin. For instance, even if a number fell off the date on the obverse, it can be struck into the reverse. If you have collected error coins for any length of time, you have probably heard many say that if a coin thought to be an error has an incuse letter, it cannot be an error. That however, as evidenced by dropped letter errors, is actually possible.

found this doing research on the 71 D, thought it was interesting.
 

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If a coin is struck while elements of the design are clogged, a common error is created known as a struck through grease type. Sometimes, the grease mixture becomes hard and compact through hundreds of strikes, is jarred loose and falls onto the planchet. When the coin is struck, a perfect letter, number or other feature is incuse into the coin.

The dropped letter can fall onto either side of the coin. For instance, even if a number fell off the date on the obverse, it can be struck into the reverse. If you have collected error coins for any length of time, you have probably heard many say that if a coin thought to be an error has an incuse letter, it cannot be an error. That however, as evidenced by dropped letter errors, is actually possible.

found this doing research on the 71 D, thought it was interesting.

While this is true it is not what happend to your 71-D......
 

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Another find this evening the E in liberty is leaning to the right

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I am new to this so these are exciting to me, it may be intrinsic value but I never thought I'd find errors myself.

Worth money or not, If I found that in circulation it'd be going in my collection!
 

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