Asleep At The Wheel?

There are several other cases in the early coinage where blunders were made in the punching in of the letters in the dies which were than corrected, but a coin with a misspelled inscription is pretty much impossible sice they went to the full hubbing of dies in 1836. After that a misspelling would appear on every example of that coin for the year.

 

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Until I got into coins, I had no idea just how much information there was regarding errors, varieties, and the variations of each per year, per mint, etc. It's enough to make someone's head spin, but learning all of this information has made collecting/hunting all that more exciting. I still believe Bert, the mint operator, really wanted his own coins

 

1800 LIBEKTY Half Dime

 

That's an awesome coin!!

 

It's nice but not a misspelling, broken R punch.

 

I think the BERT cent could go for big buckaroos on eBay. Can you imagine how many Berts there are out there? There’s got to be dozens or hundreds of them willing to get their own custom coin. They aren’t going to care HOW it happened, just that it did.

Steve

 

Wait....what.......? https://www.cointalk.com/threads/red-book-modern-us-dollar-coins-book-review.308422/#post-2951960

 

We'd have to cross reference those born between the mid 60's - 80's. If my hunch is correct, I'm going to guess that we'll find the most Berts born around the Sesame Street era.

 

It would have been great if Lincoln on my "Bert" penny had a gigantic uni-brow!

 

@David D, if you’re willing to risk it, I’m sure a little pushed metal could get Bert that unibrow. Wow, that would get “Berts Bidiots” in a frenzy.

Steve

 

Hell yeah! I'll find a tool in the garage that I can use to create the uni-brow and get right on it!

 

Bravo. Monday coin

 

Wonderful example of a mint flyin' by the seat of their pants, or another way: TLAR...."that looks about right"!

 

I believe there's a German term for that, guddenclosë