All my coins that have stars on the rims are the same, except this one. All thirteen stars are on this coin, but as you can see, one is in the middle of the date. Is this considered a mint error? maybe mint variety error? Is this unusual?
Nice find! Incuse for new collectors is: adjective 1. hammered or stamped in, as a figure on a coin. noun 2. an incuse figure or impression. verb (used with object), incused, incusing. 3. to stamp or hammer in, as a design or figure in a coin.
Here's another image that I have inverted to maybe show it better. I still don't know if this is a mint error or not Seems like it should be.
I know that the lettering on the side is an error (E PLURIBUS UNUM) that was only supposed to be on the Pres dollars and some Sac's got that by mistake. Are the stars and date supposed to be on there?
Thank you SchwaVB57 for the site info. I took the following off of it. Native American Dollar Obverse 2009 - Present E PLURIBUS UNUM 2 0 0 9 P Native American Dollar Edge Lettering 2009 - Present So according to this, this must be a mint error, because I see no star between the date here.
So when the obverse is exactly the same, and they changed the name (and the reverses) to Native American dollar, they put the edge lettering on? Because I was reading this: https://www.thespruce.com/sacagawea-dollar-with-edge-lettering-found-3970331
Thank you for the websites links, but no one commented on if it is an error or not. So it must not be an error... I will just keep it as an unusual find... (By the way, it was the seventh star that was missing and placed in the date.Not post mint damage as this is an uncirculated set from the mint). Thank you again for the comments...
I would take it to a local professional coin shop. I tried to look at mine through the OGP and can not see the edge to verify a star or not in the date. I am not breaking from the set.
Then it is Post Strike Damage. The stars on the edge are incuse so it is not the case of an edge over run or slippage that would put part of the edge design where it shouldn't be. This is caused but the coin coming into hard contact with the edge of another coin. The incuse star on the other coin acted like a die and caused a slightly raised star to appear on the edge of your coin. Slightly raised letters are often seen on these coins for the same reason. In your case it was a star and not a letter. Just because it is a mint set coin does not mean that this can't happen. The mint set coins are not "handled with kid gloves" like the proof coins are.
Thank you Conder101 for the explanation of the type of error. I looked at the star and date, and half the time they look raised and half they look incused. But, they are either all raised or all incused. I will post one more picture I took this morning for a closer look. Thank you again...
How soft does the metal have to be, and how hard of an impression from a raised star to create this incused star? Seems like it would take a significant amount of pressure to create a fully incused star and not just a faint outline (as I would expect from brief contact). At what stage in the process, or handling thereafter creates this impression?
