1994 LMC With Possible Dropped Letters Reverse

I believe what you are seeing is some sort of Post Strike Damage. It almost looks like a stamp of sorts. It did not leave the mint this way for sure and you can tell this by the brighter metal that has been disturbed which caused this damage. Sorry.

Looks very much like the PLU from PLURIBUS. Not exactly sure what the cause is though. I don't see this being damage, letters aren't inverted and some strike throughs do result in a slight color or luster change to the metal.

Can't say for sure, but that looks good to me as a dropped PLU. Hope it is as that would be a really nice find.

@CentSation, if it were a dropped letter, which I can't confirm either way, it would be incuse.

I think some clearer pics may be beneficial from the OP. I may be wrong but I thought dropped letters have to be the same size and shape of the other letters/devices on the coin it came from in order to qualify. Yes, dropped letters are incuse but I am not seeing any resemblance of PLU here on this coin (makes me worry that my eyesight is getting that much worse....). Someone please help my old eyes and show me what you are seeing in the form of an incuse PLU..... Thank you, Seriously!!

Here are some images from Mike Diamonds site and comments, I've added to my files:













CoopHome : What is a dropped letter/letters/design and how does it affect the strike?

http://www.error-ref.com/?s=drop+letters the definition.

Coop give 'it to you everything.

Well those images are a lot better. The dulled look shows that there was some grease involved. Now if we could get you to use a diffuser, then you will be even happier. I have on my setup something that removes glare. Nothing costly at all. Depending on the type of light you are using. Bond paper can remove the glare from images. I've used in my studio (A cardboard box, a dark piece of fabric, a desk lamp and two sheet of paper, that I use for a setup for full images:
here is the results of the setup:







For this setup I like to encircle the coins with BU coins to show how the center coin looks next to BU current coins:





In the past I've used a setup like this:

This setup worked great for the tiny scope I used to use. With that light and the small scope, I took hundreds of images for coppercoins.com (Note the plastic grocery bag over the light?, that was the diffuser)
Then I bought a bigger scope and needed more light, so I still used the light source, but upper the power a bit and used a 14 watt bulb on a 12 volt system.

With the new setup I found different issues. Dealing with unwanted light. So I figured out the direction and use a diffuser to block the unwanted light:


The two different blockers were used to show that anything could be used, it just prevents the unwanted light glare from hitting the coin.
I use a ramp to direct the desired reflection into the scope lens. The ramp is a 2X2 with a piece or two of cardboard to widen the ramp and fasten dark fabric on top to cover the ramp. Expensive stuff huh? But the removal of glare gets rid of too shiny views of coins. Determine the direction of light you don't want and block it out. (Place your hand around the coin, then figure out the direction of the unwanted light) A single light source is better for Micro Photos. Two is okay for full image coins. The angle on the ramp I found was best on my scope was light source as 12:00 and the taller angle of the ramp at 6:00. If I needed to rotate the coin, turn the coin, not the ramp. The angle will be correct at that setting, bu rotating the ramp will make the image lighter/darker or a golden color when you have it at the right angle.

CoopHome: Lighting, ramp, diffuser, setups for full images or single images.