BIE Cents

Here are some BIE cents I found. Most are 1957, so I’ll split them into two sets since I have more than 10 to share. Feel free to share your BIE cents!

 

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Here are the remaining BIE cents.

 

BIE, BIE! Nice coins!!

 

The BIE Guild considered them to be errors and even nicknamed BIE as "Best In Errors."

 

It's a Die Break Error that's considered a variety. Same for Cuds.

I think the Cents minted in the 1950's had the most BIE examples.

 

Okay, Thanks! Bye. Bye!

 

Thank you for the correction. Crossed my wires.

 

I agree with paddyman, very common in the 50's.


Even though they are considered a variety they are still error coins.

 

They are errors, not varieties, coins struck with a broken die. Varieties are coins struck with a miss punched “RPM” or re-hubbing of a die “double die”.

Lincoln Cent Die Breaks Called “BIE” : Cuds on Coins (cuds-on-coins.com)

Hardy Index System : Cuds on Coins (cuds-on-coins.com)

Error-Ref.com

 

Varieties include coins struck with a miss punched “RPM” or re-hubbing of a die “double die”.
Even Cud-on-Coins call them varieties.

 

Just found one more.

 

Nice collection.
I had a BU roll of 1955 S Lincoln's and several had BIE and die chips on the reverse, so the 50s seem to be leading in that.

 

These are also recorded as BIE's.
Here is an odd die break on a 52.

 

Nice, never seen that!

 

Some of mine.

 

The Variety vs Error discussion is always confusing for folks, especially when the concepts cross over as they do for die chips like BIEs. I've read folks who try to explain them as "die errors" as opposed to "minting errors", thus separating out things like brockages, clips, etc from things like BIEs, cuds, and so on. I prefer just calling them "die chips" in order to eliminate the confusion.