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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 454789, member: 66&quot;]Who said anything about it damaging the die?&nbsp; And the &quot;grease&quot; from a grease filled die is anything but &quot;squishy&quot;.&nbsp; The &quot;grease starts out as lubricating oil that gets mixed with dirt, metal dust and shavings.&nbsp; I become more of a paste.&nbsp; As it gets pounded into a recess of the die it gets some of the oil &quot;squeezed&quot; out of it and the remaining material becomes pretty hard.&nbsp; Then when it falls out it still isn&#039;t hard enough to damage the die, but it can be pressed into the softer surface of a planchet.&nbsp; If a letter becomes fully filled and then drops you can get a full deep dropped letter.&nbsp; If the letter was only partially filled (shallow fill) and that falls out it could give you a faint impression like this.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell from the picture whether the P is raised or incuse.&nbsp; A dropped letter would be incuse.&nbsp; If the coin could make contact with the mintmark in the die again it would be raised.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a problem with the idea of a coin making contact with the mintmark on the die a second time is that the mintmark in the die is incuse and the coins is no longer flat.&nbsp; The raised lettering and rim would prevent the field area from being able to make contact with the incused mintmark in the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another possibility, especially it it is neither raised or incuse, is that it is just a chance coloration on the surface of the metal and the hardwired pattern recognition systems in our brain is simply seeing it as a P.&nbsp; The brain trys to make sense out of and create patterns from random noise, and they are very susceptible to suggestion.&nbsp; Show someone random noise and suggest you see certain things and others will see them as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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