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By Susan Headley, About.com Guide to Coins since 2006

In God We Rust

Saturday June 20, 2009

One of my favorite types of error coins is the type where one or more letters doesn't show up on the coin because of "die goop" clogging the die. Die goop is a non-technical term that many collectors use to describe the accumulated machine oil, dirt, metal shavings, and other gunk that collect in the small parts of operating machinery. When this goop collected in the first T of Trust on a Kansas State Quarter die, we ended up with a coin that reads In God We Rust!

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