Part VI. Striking Errors:

“Struck-Through” Errors:

Yanked-out fillings

Definition: A plug of hardened die fill that sticks to a newly-struck coin and that is yanked out of a die’s recess as the hammer die withdraws or as the coin is ejected. The recess-shaped plug replaces, and occupies the same position as, the raised design element that should occupy that location. In that location we instead find a raised element composed of die fill (“grease”).

This 1969-D cent features a raised, black letter U in place of the normal raised U of TRUST. The black, crusty letter is a plug of die fill pulled out of the U-shaped recess in the obverse die face when the hammer die withdrew from the surface of this coin. Discovered by Matt Campbell.