Posts: 856 Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Location: West Georgia
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:53 am
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The 54 S is a Die Chip in the 9 towards the 5 and down to the S. It is caused when a piece of the die used to punch the planchlet break's off. In this case it was over-use of the Die. It does have a premium for buyers but only a couple of $. The 56 and 57 are known as BIE errors. The same occured with a part of the Die chipping off. These too have a couple of dollars premium.
Rhubarb _________________ There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding
out.
Some people collect BIE (or IBE) cents.
It's an area on the die that's prone to crack.
The easy ones to to find would be about 1953 to 1957 but they exist for other years too. They are harder to find on modern cents but they are out there too.
