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Posted 04/06/2013 3:29 pm
I'm reviving this ancient thread because I wish to retract the thumbs-up I gave this "error". I have to drop it back into the "authenticity uncertain" file. It took me awhile to realize that it would have been a simple matter to cut out a plug of metal bearing an isolated letter T from the obverse, to mount that plug, and then drive the plug into the soft copper of the edge. I suspect this is more likely than a dropped letter scenario because it's highly unlikely that a dropped plug of die fill would fall off a coin and then lodge in the recesses of the lettering device. I've now seen four isolated, incuse "dropped elements" on the edge of dollar coins, and that's a few too many for comfort. -- Mike Diamond
Error coin writer and researcher.
