1980 missing letters

my 1980 dime is missing letters I and m

 

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What you have is a grease/debris filled die error and a nice one from the looks of it.

 

I am looking through my dimes and came across it kind of cooli think and on the front side idk if you noticed the top of the letters kind of smeared lol I'm excited

 

And btw thank you

 

Im new so I'm trying to get all the help and info if you don't mind can you explain a lil about what that means if you don't mind

 

The front or obverse is a misaligned die, notice the slight rim doubling at the bottom.

 

Grease or other foreign matter got into the die and prevented a full strike of all the lettering on the reverse. On the obverse, this misalignment was caused by the machinery being slightly out of specifications causing the coin to be able to be a bit struck slightly out of it's intended strike area.

 

I saw the it I thought it looked a bit odd I have 2 like that on the top but this one was missing the letters on back

 

So it's a keeper right

 

Yes, it's a keeper for sure. Does not hold a lot of value but is an interesting, genuine error nonetheless.

 

Yes. More of a conversation piece. I would play 50 cents for it plus the cost of the dime so 60 cents.

 

Very awesome I'm so excited thank you I have lots of change but I am still looking around to see what I find

 

I forgot to say welcome to Coin Talk! A site that could help you out a lot on errors and how they are created and what are not errors would be www.doubleddie.com. There is a lot of useful info on all sorts of errors there, enough to keep you busy for hours. You can click directly on the link I have provided.

 

Very awesome thank you yes I have got to get me a coin book to save them in lol I'm so excited

 

Hey guys I have a nickel that is blank on the front side

 

Word of advice. Always posts your coins separate. I ignore threads that I have answered sometimes (a lot of ppl here do that) and that's damaged.

 

Ground down with a Dremel tool or something similar. Damaged as Ty says.

 

If a Dime is missing letters.. then it's worth 9 or 8 Cents. The more Letters it's missing, the less it's worth!

 

Thanks for the device I so appreciate the help if y'all don't mind may I follow you guys

 

Wow that's crazy I'll keep that in mind thank you padddyman 98