Hello all, Love reading over errors on coins and saw a post by 'fineone' in which they had a picture of a Lincoln with and 'error'. As was related to them from 'paddyman 98' it was a 'die break' or 'chip'. So here I will post two of my Lincolns'. I will say that this is the same issue with these and I believe this is a 'die break'. Thanks for your expertise.
Are those a wanted collectable, or do most "serious" collected pass them by. I'm still trying to figure this out.
They're very common, Ellen. We keep them. A lot of collectors do. They're just damage to the die from all the heavy pounding. They're collectable because they're repeatable; that's to say, until the die is pulled. If they're cool, yes, they could command a little extra.
Hello EllenMWJ You have 2 really great examples of "Die Chips". Just as the other members have stated, these are fairly common. They are found a lot in Cents minted in the 50's and 60's. There are "plugged 8 and 9" digits. You might have seen some other recent threads related to these Cents concerning the "BIE" Die Breaks.. That means a break between the letters B and E in LIBERTY. Here is an example of one that I own. These "Chips" were my actual first kind of errors that I ever found. That label was written when I was about 19 years old. I'm 44 now and have found scores of Die Breaks, Chips and BIE's.
The 57's are very common I have a bunch of uncirculated ones that have die chips ill see if I can snag a photo of some
Oh, ok! What about roundish blobs not near lettering or numbers? Are they die breaks too? Collectable? I had one of those, and now it has disappeared! These pictures and your expirations help so much. I'm new on here and I'll have to browse around. I don't want to get people's posts off track. Thanks, again!
