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xuloho New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 8:29 pm Hello. I have a question I recently just started helping my youngest son collect pennies and he has shown me a penny from 1952 with a s mint. I have googled about errors and stuff about pennies and this one looks like In between the B and the E there is hunk of copper. how would one tell about finding out if its a true error and how rare things like this is. Thank you for your help. Report this Post to the Staff

coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 8:43 pm That is called a "BIE." The area between the devices are chipping probably because of a clash in that area. It continues to chip away untill it reaches the outside of the devices in that area. It looks something like this: Report this Post to the Staff
xuloho New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 8:45 pm Oh sweet. Thanks for the help. Looks like my son has a error penny he sure will enjoy this info thanks again. Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 05/20/2011 11:46 pm Except that Coop forgot to mention that they are actually pretty common, and very few people collect them. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 05/21/2011 02:42 am Un-like varieties, these would vary as the chipping of the die could be in different die states. Making on a few varying degrees of chipping. So it was very hard/if not impossible to give numbers to these. The dies were over used during this decade and a lot of inferior coins were created and were normal while the mint made a many cents as possible from these dies. Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 05/21/2011 06:19 am People do collect BIE's. There is even a book on these that someone printed awhile ago. John1 P.S. fellow Michiganders. Edited by John1 05/21/2011 06:20 am Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 05/21/2011 06:33 am A while ago - the one printed in 1967? Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 05/21/2011 06:53 am Could be. I don't remember when it was printed or by whom,only that it was printed.So at one time,whenever it was, there was collectible interest in BIE's.IMHO. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
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