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Need Help With A 1957 Wheat Penny.

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 Posted 07/28/2017  9:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
This is called a "BIE" error. It was caused by a Die Break in between the "B" and the "E". It's worth around 2.00. Fuzzy317, you are correct. :)
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 Posted 07/28/2017  9:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fuzzy317 to your friends list
E&V,
you could have edited your first post to make that additional comment.
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 Posted 07/28/2017  9:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GDN to your friends list
I have the worst phone camera. Sorry about the awful pic. Thank you for your help!
Even if it's worth only $2.00...its my first error! Woo Hoo!#9786;
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 Posted 07/28/2017  9:10 pm  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list
It looks like a BIE die break error. See if you can find a match here:

http://cuds-on-coins.com/ldb4-1957/

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 Posted 07/28/2017  9:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinlover1899 to your friends list
Yep, no question a BIE error. Nice Find!
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Fuzzy317, thank you. I fixed it. I edited my comment. :)
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Even if it's worth only $2.00...its my first error! Woo Hoo!#9786;


Great way to start out Gail.
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Nice pick-up.
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 Posted 07/29/2017  05:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list
Are you guys sure it is an error and not a variety?
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 Posted 07/29/2017  05:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fuzzy317 to your friends list
the glossary calls it an error

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BIE
A Lincoln Cent error caused by a die break between the "B" and the "E" in Liberty, giving the appearance of "BIE".
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 Posted 07/29/2017  10:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Halo1st to your friends list
Error-ref refers to die chips as an error. Thanks, Doug.


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Definition: A small piece (less than 4 square millimeters) that falls out of the die face and has no direct connection to the design rim. The missing piece leaves a void in the die face into which coin metal flows. As a result, the coin shows a featureless lump in the affected area.

A die chip can be connected to a die crack or it can be freestanding. Die chips frequently develop within narrow interstices in the design, such as the gap between the letters of LIBERTY. Hence the so-called "BIE" errors.


http://www.error-ref.com/die-chips/

PS: learned a new word today. "Interstices" - an intervening space, especially a very small one.
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I read somewhere, that an error is a one of a kind and a variety is many of the same anomaly.
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 Posted 07/29/2017  11:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinCents to your friends list
@John1 - I am pretty sure that was coop (though I don't know if it related to BIE's) but he used to write on my posts that a lot of what we call errors are Die Events such as Greasers, Abraded Dies, and actual Die chips.

Errors were the One-of-kind happening like: Broadstruck, clipped planchets, the Dual Denomination strikes) like the one that was posted with the dime), capped dies etc.

I had a bunch posts saved and categorized on my other computer (which died a couple of months ago) so I lost all of those documents. Actually, coop has that info in his YouTube videos.
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