1977 ITALY 100 LIRE STRUCK THROUGH GREASE (MISSING L ERROR)

Issuer

Italy

Period

Republic (1946-date)
 

Type

Standard circulation coins

Years

1955-1989

Value

100 Lire (100 ITL)

Currency

Lira (1861-2001)

Composition

Acmonital (81.75% Iron, 18.25% Chromium)

Weight

8 g

Diameter

27.8 mm

Thickness

2.0 mm

Shape

Round

Technique

Milled

Orientation

Coin alignment ↑↓

Demonetized

28 February 2002

Welcome to Numista. It is difficult to say anything for certain on a heavily circulated 50 year old coin. True mint errors of value more than likely would have been caught a very long time ago and would be documented. This could be attributed to many things. Grease blockage which is not an error,, wearing dies, which is not an error because it is inherent to the manufacturing process of all coins and they manufactured almost 254,000,000 of these in 1977. but most probably simple wear or the cumulative effects of a combination of factors. This example is otherwise unremarkable.

N#304.

When you enlarge your picture you see your coin is in a very bad condition, especially for an Italian stainless steel coin. I'm afraid too it's just wear or like Harry says, in combination of wearing dies.

This missing L is what I'm talking about. 😉

Yes we realize that. We are refering to the general condition of the entire coin as well as the L which although faint is still visible. 

Oh, than it's even more simple. Just PMD. You can see the traces of the coin rolling machine all over the coin, and exactly over that L:

Essor Prof

Oh, than it's even more simple. Just PMD. You can see the traces of the coin rolling machine all over the coin, and exactly over that L:

Eagle eyes!