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1986 Lincoln cent

#1 Unread post by xrayman »

Here's another interesting one, on this one i need your help to describe it

On this 1986 coin, ive notice that the "IN God WE TRUST" the first three letters there is some doubling but cant really tell what type.
On the word "LIBERTY" its missing part of the letter making it spell IIBERTY and on that same side the rim part has an extra line along side the rim from lIBERTY up to the "IN God WE TRUST".
Can you see what im looking at?
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I don't see any doubled or doubling, but the images are not large enough to see. I have seen this inside rim line before and it's usually something to do with the plating being pushed or it could be something with the plachet when it was created. I have see a few of these and they have a low interest to collectors.

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so,is that why the letter "L" turned out to be an "I" instead?

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here i send 2 images, hopefully there better to view.
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Yes, the letter L became distorted, and is missing the lower part, by what happened. I have seen this before and it's common to see the L with a problem or missing something like this.

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#6 Unread post by sidingguy »

I have a series of this error from the same roll...They seem to progress as the coins appear...I saved them just cause I found them interesting

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#7 Unread post by Daniel »

Interesting that you found a progression of this occurrence, that suggest it had something to do with the die and something that got worse as the die continued striking the coin. I need to look further into this if that's the case. However, I have found examples of this and know that it's not rare or something desirable and why there's not more literature on this.

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