1969 S LMC- Possible Error?

Hello this is my 1st posting so I hope I'm doing this correctly. Lol...ok so I realize that words on modern coins cannot be misspelled.so what do you think about the,what appears to be two letter "Y's" at the end of the word "Liberty" .would this be worth anything to a collector of error coins.your input would be greatly appreciated.

 

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Welcome to CT.
Hard to tell from the images but I’m leaning to Post Mint Damage to the T. It took the perfect hit and the soft metal moved to its present location making it look like it has 2 Y’s.
These aren’t T’s but it shows you how things can move on the surface of a cent.
Reed.

 

Thank you for your insight.that makes a lot of cents.lol.thnx

 

Welcome to the neighborhood!

The best advice I can probably give you is try to learn as much as you can about the minting process.....how the dies are made.....how coins are produced from the blanking process to the coining chamber.....etc.

Also, if you have never read "Strike It Rich With Pocket Change".....Don't!

Chris

 

You should read "Strike It Rich With Pocket Change"!

 

And then join Coin Community so THEY can answer the 10000 stupid questions that will come up! Another GREAT information source is YouTube! If a new person isn’t ruined by those two sources of gen-u-wine information I don’t know what it will take.

Stay away from both until you have some real knowledge or you’ll be lead astray for sure! ( not you Steve the OP )

 

I really thought I might catch Chris off guard & elicit a response from him first.

It's really confounding that these issues come up so often when there are great resources for seriously figuring these things out if one is really serious about this practice.

 

Ya snooze, ya lose!

I think we should take note that BoobTube was mentioned since it seems that we get most of our gen-u-whiners from there.

Chris

 

Agree, Chris!

 

Welcome @AvA11. Keep that sense of humor, and you're going to fit right into the asylum, here.

 

Hey Chris, got a question for you. I've got a 1919S wheat cent, and it didn't have the I or B in liberty. So I checked up on it and there is a registered 1919S cent missing the L,I,B and it also has the date doubled on it. So naturally I put my cent under microscope and the two nine's both show doubling. But my cent had the L in liberty. So it's not identical, and I was wondering if that makes a difference and maybe my 1919 is just PMD on liberty and machine doubling on the date. I don't want to post here until I am more informed and know how to present it.

 

You can't see the doubling without magnification but you can tell that if it was 1919 and the cent was new, the doubling would have been very bold and unmistakable.

 

For the record, I'm averse to blind dates as well.

Chris

 

LOL,. You are truly a lone coyote. But seriously, I am trying to do things right and I value your opinion and knowledge. So let's just say I'm a.charity case and your doing your good deed for the day.

 

OK, you win here are some pics but you already know my photography lacks.

 

The date is not doubled on your coin, and what appears to be a grease-filled die on LIBERTY should never be used as a marker for any variety. Grease and debris compacted in the devices is too common and can happen repeatedly even after the die has been cleaned.

Chris

 

Thank you Chris. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with me. What do you mean that grease filled die is very common and that it shouldn't be considered an error,?I can only say that I'm not up on that error yet and take your word for it. Off to read up on grease.. Duane

 

I didn't say that a grease-filled die shouldn't be considered an error. I said that it shouldn't be used as a marker. A marker is an anomaly on a coin that can be used to identify a specific variety or the die state of a variety.

For example, I found 228 1980 Lincoln cents in a $50 Mint bag with a clashed "Y" on the reverse. I know that all of these coins came from the same die because there are two small gouges extending southwest from the second "A" of AMERICA on every coin.

Chris

 

I have a 1998D wide AM and a 1998D close AM which one is the error coins???

 

Thanks Chris , now I understand. I was confused there for a second.