Asleep At The Wheel?

Someone either forgot how to spell Liberty, or had one hell of a night before hand.

 

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Struck through grease.. It's a Greaser
Nothing Major

The Mint does not misspell anything.

 

See all those polishing marks? It looks like old Bert the mint employee polished away everything except his name. They told him not to use the 80 grit disks! Lol.

Reed

 

I disagree! I believe the polishing took place, first, but then the "LI" once again filled with grease and debris. If the polishing had removed the "LI", the die would have been removed from service.

Chris

 

Hahahahaha, good 'ol Bert, at it again!!

 

I was just making a joke. Coin roll hunting is fun for me even when I find one that isn't valuable so I thought I would keep this one light hearted due to the error.

 

Yeah Chris that and or a weak strike and Bert has his coin!
Reed

 

That's OK. A new collector may read this thread and learn something, so that's a good thing

 

Where's Ernie?

 

C IS FOR COIN AND THATS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!

 

Right, note UNITED and the fraction.


OK I admit they spelled it right, they just punched the U upside down and then corrected it. Sure looks like II though.

 

Hahahahaha!!

 

What year was that penny minted? I've honestly never seen one like that before?

 

I was just going to make a comment about the much rarer and more desirable "ERNIE" variety, but @Oldhoopster beat me to it.

 

E • Pluribus
• Ernie •

 

1801 iirc.

 

Very cool!!

 

Conder can certainly provide much better info than I, so please just consider it a starting point.

 

Right on! Thank you