1956 D/D And 1954 S filled 9 on date

I found these a few years ago when I bought a bag of unsearched pennies from a coin shop. I went back and told the guy what I found, he wasn't too happy.. ..there were a bunch of 1909s and some cool key dates in there too. It was a good haul.

What kind of error is the 1954 filled date called ?

penny

 

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It's called "a chip in the old die."

 

@eddiespin Thank you very much . Are Cuds and Die Chips the same thing?

 

@eddiespin what would this be called? (See photo)

 

No. Cuds are just breaks anywhere in the die. Chips are when a raised piece of the die used to impress into the coin had chipped off and is no longer there to do that. That's why that "9" is filled in.

 

That's called a "BIE." It's a chipped off area in LIBERTY.

 

@eddiespin. Very interesting.. I will be doing some new reading on this. Thank you for your time

Penny

 

@PennyPenny. You're welcome. Have fun with that bag, looks like you got a good one.

 

Penny wanted to share this with you varietyvista.com plenty of images to compare your finds to. There's also Wexler varieties site. These references will help you more to understand what you have found .

 

@Paddy54. Wow, thanks so much! I will check both of these sites out tonight. Much appreciated!!

Penny

 

Good advice from Paddy. Click on either of these so you don't have to search for them. www.varietyvista.com or www.doubleddie.com.

 

@tommyc03. Thank you so much! I know how I'm going to spend my Sunday

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