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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rascal, post: 1106595, member: 29239&quot;]Well NGC was probably right in calling it a struck thru fragment. . This one would be a tough call . If it had been me I would have called it a dropped letter coin.&nbsp; These older wheat back coins was really bad for parts of them to flake off the coins because of bad metal mixture and if this was the case then NGC was right but if this came from a clogged die and fell onto the unstruck planchet and got pushed into the coin by the die then this is a dropped letter coin. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>a dropped letter coin occurs when a&nbsp; letter or number on a coin die becomes clogged with dirt,grease,metal and all kinds of junk mixed in then it sometimes breaks loose and lands on a unstruck planchet . when the die strikes the new planchet to make the coin the part that fell out of the die get&#039;s pushed into the coin making a sunken in impression of a letter or number and sometimes even part of a coin&#039;s design does this. I have a quarter that has part of the design of the branches below the eagle struck into the coin. beware of fakes because there are many out there but I can tell your coin is for real.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>if your coin is from a clogged die then what happened here was the letters got filled in and the die kept on collecting a build up between the letters and this kept the letters together when the lump fell off the die. in this case luckily the lump turned over and landed so the letters were on the bottom and got pushed into the coin. if it had landed on the planchet with the other side of the lump turned down then it would have just made a smooth sunken in area the size of the lump .</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The real dropped letter coins are so rare because most times when the debris falls out of a&nbsp; die it breaks up into small pieces when it lands on the unstruck coin and only makes lots of little sunken in dots.. I like you coin and if you want to sell it let me know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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