Another mildly interesting (variety?) find while CRHing new 2020-D shield cents.

Kurisu

I posted a couple weeks ago about a series of a few 2020 D dimes with a 'Beauty mark' on Roosevelt because I had questions about maybe submitting to see if I could get a new variety attribution.

I just went through about 15 rolls of brand new 2020 D pennies.
I spotted a little die chip/gouge on the shield's top edge and now I have a total of 31 of them from these rolls right here in Denver.

So...considering how nearly microscopic some modern error/varieties are and the fact that there seem to be fewer and fewer errors on moderns...and also these are very easy to spot without a loupe!

Get them attributed? Give them a cool name?
Simply identify it as something collectors will want to search for?! It sure seems like in large part that's what a whole bunch of type collectors of coins of all vintages are all about...am I wrong?!
....."Pellet on Shield"?

yspsales

Noble of you to slog thru modern stuff looking for interesting coins.

MsMorrisine

it's just not even big enough to get close to a worthwhile name of "error"

had you posted one, I'd guess a bunch of people would have thought it a plating bubble. that is nothing, too.

true die varieties are not die chips. when I first started I was asking the same questions. the simple answer is "no one is doing it because their beauty is one only a mother could love."

Kurisu

@MsMorrisine said:
it's just not even big enough to get close to a worthwhile name of "error"

had you posted one, I'd guess a bunch of people would have thought it a plating bubble. that is nothing, too.

true die varieties are not die chips. when I first started I was asking the same questions. the simple answer is "no one is doing it because their beauty is one only a mother could love."

I do know some of that and definitely valid points...but I did mention that errors and varieties seem to be miniscule in a lot of modern's cases. And there are plenty of varieties which could be mistaken for other things if one didn't realize it was in fact a variety.

I also fully get that typically die chips aren't varieties...but...here's a little itty bit on VAMs from currencyandcoin.com ,
"Some collectors first saw VAM coins as mistakes or errors but that is definitely incorrect. The definition of an error is a mismade or defective coin. A variety is a process that has the same characteristics repeated on each coin struck from the same die or dies."

So if I'm going through a bundle of brand new 2020 D's right here literally a few miles from the Denver mint and so far out of these 15 rolls I've found 31 of these little...ummm things...are they just tiny identical errors?

I've done plenty of things because my mother loved it, or me...or told me I was very very handsome. I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested!

ɹoʇɔǝlloɔ

wish you luck in getting a variety established for this - found a filled-S die chip on nearly 10% of ghwb $1 coin reverses in a bag of 100 from denver and got same feedback - not a variety --- although I'm still holding onto them in a tube, because much like @MsMorrisine mentioned, I'm their mother and I love them 🥰

mannie gray

Looks like a small die chip.
The top of the shield is a frequent area for die cracks/chips.

Kliao

Chips and cracks are very common in that area of the shield. They are quite common as I have found full rolls of them. I would just keep them around as they are kind of neat.