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1972 No VDB? Compared To 1958 D Ghost VDB?

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 Posted 08/23/2025  8:06 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add MD21229 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
So a while back I bought an obw "hoard roll" of '58 Ds. Nothing obviously remarkable other than cherry ms65+. Then I got an obw roll of '72s. For no apparent reason I perused the vdb area on both. I have one 1972 with what might be considered no vdb, but even more curious as to why there's "no vdb" ghosted on the '58s. Unless they tried to buff it off of a '59 to finish up the '58s. Am I seeing things? Is it worth pursuing?
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Not worth pursuing. This is likely just a very common event called a Grease Filled Die. All coin dies are polished and when they are sometimes the "grease" they use to polish is not cleaned out of all the voids in the die. In this case the very shallow voids that were designed to make teh VDB show up were simply clogged.

Many people come here with a misunderstanding of the hobby that is mostly due to internet sources making people think anything odd on a coin makes it a collectable error). Looking for random anomalies on coins and hoping they match up to something collectable will take you a lot more time, wasted effort, and disappointment repeatedly finding out you have nothing but post mint damage, useless Machine Doubling, Die Deterioration, or minor insignificant imperfections (etc.).

Spend some initial time at places like error-ref.com, doubleddie.com, varietyvista.com, conecaonline.org, coppercoins.com etc. to find what actual and collectable coin errors look like.

A good way to start is, for instance, get a box of penny rolls from the bank and separate the coins by date and mint mark. Go to varietyvista.com and, date by date, use the reference there to see what errors are known for that specific coin/mint mark. Look for those specific errors/varieties using the pictures provided. After doing this for awhile you will KNOW what an actual error looks like and not have to waste time on face value and damaged coins. :)
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 Posted 08/24/2025  7:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MD21229 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That's what I was thinking until 4 of 50 have the same impression, 46 don't. I also know it's not a known error. So I brought it here.
From what I've read; 1972 (p) are not supposed to have VDB, yet 49/50 do. 1958 (all) are not supposed to have VDB as they are wheats.
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