Utah 2007 Quarter - Full Letter B In "Liberty"

That is a minor die chip. Please rotate photos properly before posting.
John1

Actually it is a broken post, that would form the center area on the device, but now has broken off the die leaving a void. Now he coins will show a filled area above the devices, because the post has broken off below the post on the die. Now that area taller than the device, because that area has broken off the die below the fields area.


There is no premium for this, just happens a lot more. Most of the time the die breaks off the next to a part of the design and the fields and leave a die chip. But on the center areas, when the post breaks off, it can be a partial post break off, or full post break off and like on your coin, a below post break off. Just something to know so you can move on to the next coin.

CoopHome: What is a broken post loss on a device look like?

Seems like a common thing.I will probably keep it,it looks like a nice little error.

The post pin is attached at the deeper part of the die die. When you see examples like the nickel above with the part fill, almost filled and full fill, then the post is breaking off. When the closed devices is filled, then the post has broken off the die, but when the metal flows over the top of the closed device, the post broke off below the deepest part of the die of the device. Thus is is taller than the devices:

Note how the devices are not as tall as the broken area below the post, making that area taller. On appears to look like an 'S', but it just a broken part of the base of the post. (If you have a hard time figuring this out. Think of a coin it is a positive. A die is a negative. What is deepest on the die, is the tallest on the coin. So the outside of the die is the fields. Thus when they polish a die, the fields are altered, not usually the devices. So the devices are incuse on the die, the post is raised like a pin, When they got wiser on these the post was no longer thin, but wider. But even on a wider post, it will can chip away.

Note on this marker for the 1909 VDB 1102. You can see a double chip on the post, a split chip on a post and below the 'R' a "die chip" (no post there, so it is a die chip).