1994-P Roosevelt Dime Missing Leaves....

[jmcoinz]

Hello to everyone. I found a 1994-P Roosevelt Dime in circulation with (2)missing leaves. I have seen a number of weak strike coins and i want to know is this a weak stike? Please let me know. Thanks

[diamond]

In this case, the missing leaves would be due to an accumulation of compacted gunk ("grease") in the corresponding recesses of the die.

[jcuve]

There seems to be a lot of confusion between coins with a struck through (grease) filled die and weak strikes as the diagnostics, from what I can tell, have not been adequate in some of the error publications (or eBay sales for that matter). I certainly was as confused as anyone for a while. The big diagnostic is that the whole coin including the sides (rim design), which are formed by the collar, will all show an equal weakness. Greasers will not. If the rims or rim design (such as reeding) are clear (well struck) and some part or even if the whole of one (or both) sides of the coin seem to be missing you are looking at a greaser - not a weak strike. Almost all eBay examples that I have seen are greasers or on occasion a coin that had its face (and maybe sides) sanded down.

Here are two greasers - the first is two sided, the second mostly impacts the obverse. You can see the original surface of the blank is retained near the areas that were clogged. Very distinctive. My pictures are old (sorry) and I cannot find pics of my two weak strikes at the moment...

[jmcoinz]

I am very thankful for all of these replies. I am going to look at the rim of the coin for the difference and thanks to Mr diamond for the information and jcuve for the photos/information this did help and also I will post more weak strikes for opinions. Thanks jmcoinz

[rascal]

I love to find rolls of brand new coins that have parts of the design filled in like your coin is . This gives a person a better chance of finding a rare dropped letter or dropped design coin or what some error people calls a struck thru die filling coin. These are extremely hard to find and personally I have only found 3 of them in a lifetime of collecting. when the clogged part falls out of the die if it don't break up into tiny pieces it will land on the coin die then get pushed into the coin when struck and make a incuse impression of whatever falls out of the die. don't try to buy these off Ebay unless you know what to look for because a lot of folks are altering coins and trying to sell them as a real error coin.