Error Other | Misplaced D mint mark on lincoln cent?!

[Guest]

Greetings penny lovers' community!

I need to probe the collective knowledge of all your penny information saturated brains.....

Has anyone any experience that they would be willing to share in regards to MIS-PLACED MINT MARKS? I just found a penny with the D ON LINCOLN HIMSELF!

All pertinent, relevant and related comments would be very much welcomed!

Thank you for letting me join your forum!

OMNIMATHEMAGICALEYEZ!!

[coin-crazy]

Welcome to the forums,and a picture would always help..
Mikee

[JeanK]

Welcome to LCR!

Next, if this is a brand new penny, fresh from a roll, there are a couple of reasons it could happen. The best reason is what is called a 'dropped letter'. This occurs when a device (usually letters) on a coin becomes dislodged because it was weakened by some action during striking. The loose device then drops off and is positioned so when the dies strike the next coin it will leave what is usually a positive impression of that letter. This type of anomaly is quite rare because the dislodged device usually is destroyed by the second strike and will fall away.

The other reason it can happen is by simple contact from another coin and not necessarily the same denomination of coin. You can usually see contact marks of some sort on circulated and uncirculated coins. Sometimes these contact marks are caused by someone doing experiments with coins and a vise.

Here are three of the four attributed dropped letters that I have found during roll searching. Many of us have found odd markings on coins that have yet to be explained.

There is yet another reason you might find letters on Lincoln. A new variety called 'mad die clashes' has recently found a new niche in collecting. If you go to http://maddieclashes.com/ you can see many examples.

I hope this helps.
Jean

[coinman2009]

Pic's would help for sure, never heard of a d on lincoln, but let's see it!!

[coin-crazy]

Welcome to LCR!

Next, if this is a brand new penny, fresh from a roll, there are a couple of reasons it could happen. The best reason is what is called a 'dropped letter'. This occurs when a device (usually letters) on a coin becomes dislodged because it was weakened by some action during striking. The loose device then drops off and is positioned so when the dies strike the next coin it will leave what is usually a positive impression of that letter. This type of anomaly is quite rare because the dislodged device usually is destroyed by the second strike and will fall away.

The other reason it can happen is by simple contact from another coin and not necessarily the same denomination of coin. You can usually see contact marks of some sort on circulated and uncirculated coins. Sometimes these contact marks are caused by someone doing experiments with coins and a vise.

Here are three of the four attributed dropped letters that I have found during roll searching. Many of us have found odd markings on coins that have yet to be explained.

There is yet another reason you might find letters on Lincoln. A new variety called 'mad die clashes' has recently found a new niche in collecting. If you go to http://maddieclashes.com/ you can see many examples.

I hope this helps.
Jean

Wow Jean your the best!!! I need to ask you a thing or two!! Lol

[mustbebob]

Welcome to the LCR Forum! Jean has a great reply for you.

[JeanK]

I took these coins to Tom Miller (the same guy in The RPM Book first edition), who verified them as being dropped letters and he drooled over them because he said he had never found one in all of his years of searching. There were two quite similar so I gave him one of them as a Thank You for being so helpful when I went to him for checking over my coins.

Later on, after joining LCR, and becoming familiar with the nicest people in the world, I sent the coins to Bob mustbebob Piazza and he attributed the coins as being dropped letters. YAHOO! I was one happy collector!

There are a lot of collectors on this forum that know much more than I about varieties and other fun coin things. So keep picking their brains and I will get to learn even more. teehee.
Jean

[RWBILLER]

Welcome to lcr
Roger

[hasfam]

Welcome to the forum.
Rock

[eaxtellcoin]

Welcome to the LCR...

[Steven]

Welcome to LCR

[omnimathemagicaleyez]

I will work on getting a pic or two or a scan of the penny, It is not a NEW penny and unlike the pics JEAN attached- it is a RAISED letter D right on limcolns chest!

[mustbebob]

Check on coppercoins for 1958D-1MM-021. This one has portions of a D or two on the coat. I think there may be 1 or 2 more, but I can't recall that right now.

[copperlover]

Welcome to the LCR Community. Glad to have another collector.

Lucien

[omnimathemagicaleyez]

Check on coppercoins for 1958D-1MM-021. This one has portions of a D or two on the coat. I think there may be 1 or 2 more, but I can't recall that right now.

It was not what I thought it was! Not a D on lincoln! Under magnification it looks more like an O. It looks like a volcanic crater with a hole underneath and a part of the rim of the O "volcano" missing...... Some type of lamination error??