Is this an error coin? It is a 1976 bicentenial quarter and the t is missing from liberty if you look closely at the quarter. If it is an error coin what is it worth?
The Y looks weird. Like the area was altered to get rid of the original Y and make the spot where the T was, look like a Y. Maybe a clearer picture focused on this area would help us a little more?
You mean missing the Y in liberty, and the T is likely a grease fill, going with vnickels on this one. I see a faint Y though Could you center the pic on the "error" and zoom in?
I have no clue what the terms are for any of this ... but this looks like someone scraped off the Y... I can pretty easily see where the Y was, and then altered the T into a Y. So it's missing a Y, and has a tranny T
The T is there, the Y is missing. Grease fill means what it sounds like. Grease filled the die where the Y was, resulting in a strike without the Y, or a weak one. (Picture the Y not even being punched into the die, the grease acts the same way, it blocks the Y like it's not there.) My avatar is a Wheat cent with this same type of error in the date. I don't know what year it is because all it shows is 195. Also I doubt someone tried to alter the T into a Y. If grease filled the Y it's not unlikely that a little bit of grease got into the top of the T.
All of the main types of "errors" have very literal names, making them easy to remember. Grease fill means just that, the grease filled in something (comes from a lubricant used on the die, I think). Just like doubleD die, where there was two + strikes on the die when originally struck
