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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gixxxer, post: 446790, member: 13268&quot;]I found this a few months ago, while cherrypicking through rolls of Nickels. </p><p>Can I get some input to see if I understand, correctly what a &quot;dropped letter&quot; error is? </p><p><b>My understanding</b>:&nbsp; A &quot;dropped letter&quot; error is actually a &quot;struck through&quot; error - being that as a letter or letters in the die fill with grease, the grease will collect and hold minute particles of dust/ debris. Over time, as the letter/s are filling, the particles and grease are are compacting and getting hard and brittle. Eventually when the letter is filled completely, the collected stuff falls out in the shape of that letter. Usually, when the letter falls, it will break apart as it hits the surface it lands upon, because it is so brittle. Rarely, the letter will fall out maintaining its shape as it lands on the surface of the next blank to be struck. As the next blank is struck, the shape of the fallen letter is &quot;struck through&quot; and incused into the surface of the newly struck coin. During the strike the fallen letter is obliteratedbecause it is so brittle, making each &quot;dropped letter&quot; error coin one of a kind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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