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matthewpj73 Valued Member United States 187 Posts	Posted 10/14/2011 3:22 pm Okay, I need some help with this 55D LHC...what is up with the E in LIBERTY? It looks like a piece of it broke off and was stamped in again...? Report this Post to the Staff

dbrablec Pillar of the Community United States 1944 Posts	Posted 10/14/2011 3:35 pm its refered to as a BIE error. the die is breaking in tha area. I keep the ones I find. pobably a small premium in higher grades. they are fairly common in the 50's coins. fun to find. Report this Post to the Staff
jedichef Pillar of the Community United States 781 Posts	Posted 10/14/2011 3:36 pm it looks like an early version of the "BIE" Report this Post to the Staff
jedichef Pillar of the Community United States 781 Posts	Posted 10/14/2011 3:37 pm Here's mine. I believe it's caused by a die chip. I think. Report this Post to the Staff
biokemist6 Bedrock of the Community United States 12437 Posts	Posted 10/14/2011 4:00 pm Other variations of that die chip are IIB and EIR but BIE is by far the most common. At one point, BIEs were so popular that there was a reference book and even a club! The craze dates back to the 50s-70s when very few collectors had even a basic understanding of the minting process and many thought the die chips were actually an extra letter on the coin. Report this Post to the Staff
bpoc1 Rest in Peace United States 4078 Posts	Posted 10/14/2011 4:10 pm I also have some of these. My question, it seems to me there are more identified varieties in US cents than Canadian, any reason? Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 10/14/2011 7:35 pm Most Canadian coin collectors like the normal ones. Less than normal ones are shunned by most collectors. In the U.S. The errors/die varieties create more interest to some and thus the cataloging of the ones found. The BIE cents can be in varying states of die chipping. So you may have several examples of the same die, just in varying die states according to chips present. This makes them harder to collect to catalog. Just die break down. Not real hubbed die varieties. Die varieties can be identified to certain die numbers. Report this Post to the Staff
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