Expert: PAPAJACK - 6/2/2007

Question
I HAVE A 1972 DIME ON THE REVERSE IT SAYS ONE D INSTEAD OF ONE DIME IS THIS WORTH ANY THING?

Answer
Missing letters or digits are usually caused by a filled die error. Grease and debris commonly get caught in the recesses of the dies as they produce coins. When the dies close on the blank the portion of the die filled with this debris won’t let the metal, on the coin blank, flow into it and the feature is weakly struck or missing.

These coins are common with weak or altogether missing features. The price you may get for them over the face value depends on what an error collector may pay for the particular coin. For a missing digit on a cent it would be less than a dollar.

No coin can be exactly valued without being seen, and Error-Coin collecting is a branch outside of coin collecting. There is no fixed pricing on these error coins published and each one would have to be seen to be evaluated.

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PapaJack