2008 Small Cent, Another Minor, New Obverse Variety

When I was finishing up my research on any possible doubled dies for the 2008 small cent I came across a few different minor varieties, as some may know from my past 2008 post.

I was going to add this one to that post but I did not want to revive an old thread with a different variety.

Anyway, on the 2008 small cent obverse, the queen typically has 33 beads on her necklace, however, I have found 3 rolls so far and still counting that have the last bead missing as shown in the photo.



I must note, I use the word variety loosely as I don't think it was an intentional change of any sort, could be as simple as a missing bead on the working hub (raised) which would be missing on the working die (incuse), The possibility of this just simply being a plugged bead or over-polishing does not seem too likely given the lack of "progression" when examining examples of either one.

I have found these not only in BU rolls but also from circulated rolls so I do know that both can be found in the wild.

Since they are somewhat minor I only went as far as confirming if they could be obtained through circulated rolls and not just from the batch of BU rolls I had.