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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 759978, member: 66&quot;]The hub is similar to the die but on it the design is raised like it is on the coin.&nbsp; The hub is impressed into another piece of steel to create the die.&nbsp; Sometimes&nbsp; a piece will break off of the hub, typically part of one or more of the letters.&nbsp; Since that is missing from the hub it does not create that part of the letter in the die and the letter on the coin struck from it will also have that part of the letter missing.&nbsp; This is a hub break.&nbsp; Good examples that come to mind are seated half dimes that often have the top of the D in UNITED open, two cent pieces with the serif of the D missing, and most especially shield nickels that often have &quot;broken letters&quot; on the reverse, especially the 1868 hub of 68 design that can have as many as 5 broken letters on the same coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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