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Hi, I am from Biloxi, MS and been collecting coins for about 5 years now and looking forward to reading about other peoples finds.
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Thank you! Just a beginner here and this forum seems to be a lot easier to navigate.
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Found this 1970 Lincoln cent with an incused dropped letter

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No magnification need. Would like to get some thoughts on it.

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The image isn't clear or large enough to say exactly what's going on with the date.
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I think his question may be about the marks that are bottom center. I still can't make them out though.
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I am sorry, like I said I am new at this. The dropped letter is an A at the bottom middle of his suit.
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This appears to be a post-mint stamp. It does not match the style or size of any lettering on the coin.

Best seen in the upside down photo.
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mhonzell wrote:This appears to be a post-mint stamp. It does not match the style or size of any lettering on the coin.

Best seen in the upside down photo.
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I agree as well, post mint damage, someone stamped this into the coin.
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Hi im jd1244 I'm new to collecting and very green I found a 1978 lincoln cent in liberty the li is missing and the only letters where in God we trust are suppose to be it it only has "rust" and when you flip to the reverse the Lincoln memorial building is turned rotated about 15% I know about grease filling the dies I havent seen any other coins with these errors cant find anything on a 1978 penny has anyone come across others like this
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I have seen this before and it is caused by a grease filled die. Some collectors will pay a couple dollars for these but it mostly doesn't add any value. It would be nice if it did, but it would take finding several of these that are from the same die air to give them variety status and more value.

Hard to tell about the rotation since both images show a rotated coin.

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Thanks daniel I know the photos suck I was riding down the road in a work truck in the dark trying to fet a good photo
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I took the liberty of righting his reverse photo
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#15 Unread post by mhonzell »

I think you misunderstood Daniel, the photos do not show front to back orientation, so it cannot be determined if one of the dies were abnormally rotated when the coin was struck.
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