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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rmpsrpms, post: 7532713, member: 31773&quot;]There are 4 known BIEs for 1954-S. Yours is classified by Cohen as BIE B624. See it here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.macrocoins.com/1954s-bies.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.macrocoins.com/1954s-bies.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.macrocoins.com/1954s-bies.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s relatively common but as with all BIEs, RPMs, Doubled Dies, etc, each type comes from just one die, so they are all (individually) limited in minted quantity by the life of one die. It turns out two different BIEs from 1954-S both have a similar break on the &quot;5&quot;, which is why that pickup point is so common. Still, there are others from 1954-S that don&#039;t have the chip/break in the &quot;5&quot; so many BIEs out there don&#039;t have it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The left edge of the E is a high stress point for the die, and hence there is a tendency for the die to first crack along that edge, and eventually chip out, forming a BIE. I&#039;m not sure anyone has ever figured out why the die breaks most often between the B and the E, versus the L and I, I and B, E and R, etc. Indeed there are examples of breaks between all these letters, but the BIE is most common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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