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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rascal, post: 1312352, member: 29239&quot;]I&#039;m starting this new thread about my ebay error coin that we all thought was a altered coin. Well I receive the coin today and it definately is not like ICG has it labeld. The best news is that it is not one of the common man made altered coins. I may have struck a gold mine here,the coin is definately a mint error and the question is how did this happen at the mint? I think I may have the problem solved , after closely examining the coin.... I&#039;m almost sure it is a dropped letter coin with also a dropped detail of the memorial building , this would be extremely rare and called a dropped filling.. I saw a rare dropped filling state quarter sold on Ebay not long ago that had about two thirds of one side of the coin covered with a complete details of a dropped die filling struck into it. this happens when a coin die becomes clogged and then the clogged part fall out of the die and get&#039;s pushed into a planchet when the die strikes it. I collect dropped letter coins and I desperately wanted that quarter but it went for more than I could pay.</p><p><br /></p><p>I made it really rough on the Ebay seller and told them this was a altered coin and bought it just to keep someone else from getting a fake coin, Now I owe this seller a apoligy and I will apoligize to him . It was really ICG&#039;s fault for labeling the error wrong causing me to think this way.. the way I can tell this coin is a real mint error is for the fact that the dropped letters of America are right up tight against the rim of the coin with 4 letters showing without any damage to the fragile rim at all.If this was a hammer or squeeze job like most of us thought then the rim would have been damaged. plus not visible in the photo is tiny lines that connects the letters to the building meaning that it fell out of the die in one piece. on the top of Lincolns head is about a fourth of the letter O from ONE. if someone did this with another coin the entire word ONE would have had to be there because the partial letter O is really down deep. Two more note worthy things is that the coin is perfectly normal in diameter and the reverse side is perfect. A dropped die filling is all I can come up with that would do this. can anyone think of anything else beside this or doublestruck because is is easy to see&nbsp; it is not doublestruck ?click on this link to see it. look at the dark colored photo,it shows more of the details.</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1988-Penny-Major-Die-Clash-Must-see-/260897421640?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item3cbeb2b948" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1988-Penny-Major-Die-Clash-Must-see-/260897421640?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item3cbeb2b948" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/1988-Penny-Major-Die-Clash-Must-see-/260897421640?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item3cbeb2b948</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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