1972 D "No FG"

What I put before I erased it would probably have got me in trouble. A lot of the reasons why some list items and others do not is that each attributer has not seen examples yet. When they do they added them or decline not to. Probably that is the biggest reason why some do not list a variety.

Technically it would be considered a die error, but the coins struck from the dies are considered varieties, not errors because every coin from those is are the same.

This post is relating to 1972 no fg. I was wondering if it was a no fg mark wouldn't it be on the reverse under lincoln memorial building right side. The vdm I believe is under the right arm. Also is a no fg valuable at all because I have a 1972 Lincoln Penny with no fg and it doesn't look rubbed off

Stuart,

The Friendly Eagle Ike is in the CPG on the top of page 391 where it is listed as FS-901 and referred to as the "Friendly Eagle" Variety.

FYI, we would have liked to have included far more on Ikes into the 5th edition if images suitable to CPG or coins were provided to us.

The Ike Group had many images that lacked the proper contrast and were often sized wrong for us to use in CPG.

These images worked well in their larger format books where they could utilize as much space as was necessary to display the coins. We even included the Friendly Eagle with some hesitation due to the lack of contrast in the images as you see when you look in CPG. These two images probably have less contrast than any other images in the book. With that said, I do know that many other images in the book were too small, etc., to be truly defining but nothing like that got past me when it came to new additions to the 5th under my editorial direction.

When situations like this occur (with the Ikes) and we have boxes of other coins being supplied to us of varieties that are just as deserving, they get the attention simply because they are available.

This was true of the Kennedy half dollar and the Roosevelt dime varieties where in one case an entire collection was sent to me and in the other case a batch of all new varieties on the Kennedy halves that had been amassed by two JFK enthusiasts was sent in. Larry Briggs also supplied untold numbers of coins that he brought to several Michigan State Numismatic Society Conventions for me to photograph.

In the real world there are deadlines that have to be made or thousands of dollars will be lost just for being late. As such, you have to balance what is available against the time you have to get the job done and hope that the next time around circumstances will be different for areas that got neglected out of necessity.

I hope that clears up why there were so few Ike dollar vars in the 5th edition.