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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5382883, member: 105098&quot;]I&#039;m going to get disagreements, and it is what it is. My opinion, it&#039;s a dropped E from the reverse die (hammer die that year) that dropped out and fell on the obverse anvil die, the E in e pluribus unum but it&#039;s a bit more smashed from the strike. They eventually disappear and get obliterated in the strike after it drops out, it&#039;s not really a letter literally falling off of a die, but grease and debris/dust filling a letter, hardening in the strike, and dropping out of the die where for a couple strikes it impresses the letter or number until it&#039;s obliterated. it can fall on the die, or fall on the planchet, depending on how it falls,and where it gets stuck is.</p><p><br /></p><p>No idea why so many people on here are always so against this happening. it&#039;s a pretty well documented, real occurring die/strike event. the E pluribus area is a really common place to get filled with grease and not strike up letters also.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.error-ref.com/struck-through_dropped_filling/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.error-ref.com/struck-through_dropped_filling/" rel="nofollow">http://www.error-ref.com/struck-through_dropped_filling/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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