Hello, I am new to the community so please take it easy on me LOL. I have a bugging question to ask and it may seem silly but everything sometimes has a proper name and I'm unable to find the property for the DOT that appears between e and pluribus and unum. Can anybody tell me what the proper name is for this said dot that appears on coins?
One, it is a bugging the heck out of me and two, I do have a few coins with errors that have the dots in the wrong places I need to write it down to identify it to keep track of the errors on some coins in going through. Thank you so much for your help in advance and it's a pleasure to be here. Reno911
I have several coins with extra dots and dots in the incorrect place where they should be. Found most of them on pennies. They are not blotches or anything they're the real dots. I'm trying to figure out the name so when I speak of it I just don't say dots before I feel like you mean many things when you're speaking to somebody and I don't want it to be misinterpreted as to what the error is when I talk to you will never about it whenever. You know
Yeah they are not chips I'm assured of that. I was blown away when I saw my first one. I kept them aside from others to keep comparisons. It's definitely an error on these coins I only have a few it's not like I have many I have approximately 4 roughly and the one is amazing.
Cointree has it - it's formal name is an "interpunct". But since most people have never heard the word "interpunct" before, actually using it will likely just cause confusion, and/or make you sound verbose.
In English, you could call it a "space dot", which is kind of a translation of "interpunct". But "space dot" sounds like something you'd find in astrophotography, not numismatics. Hyphenizing it to "space-dot" doesn't really help.
So maybe it's better after all if we just keep calling it "the dot".
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
In the.discussions about the 1909 S-VDB master die varieties, they just call it a period. I'm sure everyone will know what you mean unless your someone like a Mike Diamond that needs to know the proper terminology or trying to teach someone a proper term to use like in an error coin. The different position of the period between the "D" and the "B". On one of them the period is noticeably closer to the D, while on the other it is centered between the D and the B.
I'm still learning about interjections, they didnt teach about interpunct usage
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Posted 02/20/2023 6:58 pm
I just call it a "dot"
It's called an Interpunct and it was used in Latin sometimes. No, I didn't google that! 
..learned something new today!
