1976-D Bicentennial Quarter With Partial Letter. Overpolished Die? Greaser?

Looks like a severely over polished die issue to me. Nice find. A keeper in my book.

Great find! If it is over polished I would expect to see more of them. If it's a Greaser, probably not. I will definitely add it to my "look for" list.

I'm thinking a die polishing matter.

I'll have to buck the trend and say Greaser since the A & E on each side shows slight weakness to the top layer on both & aligned with the top of the "T". These wouldn't be affected by polishing but would be affected by grease.

I also don't see any weakness to the adjoining letters from die polishing. I find it hard to believe something only happened to the "T" that required pinpoint polishing since surrounding letters weren't affected.

My guess would be that this was caused by a light amount of grease and after many strikes the dimpled fields associated with grease had mostly disappeared.