Hi; I posted this photo of a 1926S cent sometime ago. The coin has since been graded by NGC. If anyone has access to the NGC web site you may view the slab. The # is 2552392-001. I won't post NGC's photo since it is copy right.
What did NGC say about your coim? It looks like you may have a really cool coin here. From what I can see from the photo it looks like you have a rare deopped letter coin. I can see what looks like the U and N and part of the M from the word unum. I collect these dropped letter coins if this is what you have here and they are about impossible to find.
Well NGC was probably right in calling it a struck thru fragment. . This one would be a tough call . If it had been me I would have called it a dropped letter coin. These older wheat back coins was really bad for parts of them to flake off the coins because of bad metal mixture and if this was the case then NGC was right but if this came from a clogged die and fell onto the unstruck planchet and got pushed into the coin by the die then this is a dropped letter coin. a dropped letter coin occurs when a letter or number on a coin die becomes clogged with dirt,grease,metal and all kinds of junk mixed in then it sometimes breaks loose and lands on a unstruck planchet . when the die strikes the new planchet to make the coin the part that fell out of the die get's pushed into the coin making a sunken in impression of a letter or number and sometimes even part of a coin's design does this. I have a quarter that has part of the design of the branches below the eagle struck into the coin. beware of fakes because there are many out there but I can tell your coin is for real. if your coin is from a clogged die then what happened here was the letters got filled in and the die kept on collecting a build up between the letters and this kept the letters together when the lump fell off the die. in this case luckily the lump turned over and landed so the letters were on the bottom and got pushed into the coin. if it had landed on the planchet with the other side of the lump turned down then it would have just made a smooth sunken in area the size of the lump . The real dropped letter coins are so rare because most times when the debris falls out of a die it breaks up into small pieces when it lands on the unstruck coin and only makes lots of little sunken in dots.. I like you coin and if you want to sell it let me know.
1926 S error Sorry for the late reply, been away. I buy Lincoln cent collections, keep what I like and sell the rest. I found this 1926S in one of those collections. I was ready to sell this coin until I saw what I thought was a gouge on the reverse. latter upon closer inspection I saw the letters down in the " gouge" then I knew I had found a mint error. Thanks to everone for thier intrest and input. Here is a close up of the letters in the depression. b.bodie
thru struck ? If this is a struck thur fragment, why are the letters not backwards? As the fragment would have been face down to imprint letters on the planchet, or not? b.bodie
That strike thur looks like the bottom of Abe's coat to me. I had a bu 56-P that look the same but lower on the Rev.imo
b bodie you may be onto something here. When I first saw the photo of this coin before we learned what NGC said I thought it was a dropped letter coin. It would be easy for the folks at NGC or about anyone to make the wrong call here . brodie what you said makes good sense to me. If this was a struck thru fragment it looks to me like the N would have been on the left side of the U . So this pretty much proves what I said earlier about if it was me I would have labeled it as a dropped letter coin. either way it is a keeper.A authenticated dropped letters state quarter coin was sold on Ebay not long with about half of the coin or maybe more struck thru a dropped filling from a die that that included about all of the letters , numbers and coins design struck into the coin. I wanted it badly but forgot about it on my watching page. what did the quarter this way was that almost the entire coin die including the face of the die had a huge built up blob on it then fell loose from the die and the built up debris held the letters and design together. The Ebay one was so severe it almost made the coin look like one of the altered hammer jobs that a few corrupt sellers are selling.
Was the quarter authentacated by a grading company as a dropped letter. What did it sell for? Anyway this is unique coin, what do you think it would sell for. b.bodie
brodie the state quarter that sold on Ebay went for somewhere around 380.00 if I'm remembering right . It was authenticated by a grading company and I think it was NGC . again if I'm remembering right the quarter was labeled as a struck thru die filling . Probably NGC labeled it this way because the quarter had so many dropped letters and detail struck into it. If I was you I would not take a penny less than 200.00 for that coin you have. If you was to put it on Ebay with a reserve so someone could not steal it at the last minute it may bring more than that. I'm just guessing here ... I will try to include a photo here so you can see one of my dropped letter coins. I don't have a very good camera so my photos are not very good. I sold this coin on Ebay about 3 years ago and some lucky bidder stole it for 182.00 then about a week later they emailed and said they needed a refund because the coin had started to tone to a golden color.You can bet I said send her back home , now it is absolutely a beautiful golden color. on my coin it has a dropped letter T laying sideways under the first T in trust. I only have 3 dropped l etter coins out of over 30 years of collecting so this shows how hard they are to find a real one. enjoy the photos bodie if you can see them.
Here's a image of another one of my dropped letter coins. I managed to get a pretty good image of it. this one has a dropped letter L from the word ellington.
Thanks Rascal for the photos and the input. You have some nice finds there. Never had much intrest in errors until now, I will be looking for those dropped letters. b.bodie
I have a question. The photo os playing visual tricks on me. Is it correct to say that overall the area is depressed into the coin, but the letters in the depression are raised? If so I think it may be struck through a fragment of a die. It looks like a die may have gone to pieces and now a piece with the UNU of UNUM has been struck into the coin. That would give you a depression with raised forward letters in it.
It is a depression with the dot as it appers before the word UNUM and the letters UNU with the last U being incomplete. However the dot and the letters are not raised as they are on the coin they are incuse. NGC graded it as a struck thur fragment, I just don't see it. b.bodie
