1977 d nickel UMTED instead of UNITED

[Hinkle]

Hahahaha,  thought this would be cool to post.  By looking at other coins, Its normal/common . Some will see the NI, some will see the M. Some will probably see both lol.

[Just Bob]

UMTED: the Latin word for "It's almost time to replace this die."

[Hinkle]

2 minutes ago, Just Bob said:

UMTED: the Latin word for "It's almost time to replace this die."

Exactly, I call it the eye check. Went over it once then twice, and said cool. 

[Marquez-Collector]

On 3/29/2019 at 12:56 PM, Hinkle said:

Hahahaha,  thought this would be cool to post.  By looking at other coins, Its normal/common . Some will see the NI, some will see the M. Some will probably see both lol.

Check out the "M" and "O" in Monticello and the "I" in Five. Pretty cool Find. 

[JKK]

Those are mechanical doubling.

[Conder101]

No, those are the die breaking down and crumbling around the edge of the letters

[JKK]

With regard to the M and O, why do you believe that?

[Conder101]

The irregular shape of the "doubling", and on the O the fact that it is both inside and outside of the letter, ges all the way around the inside of the O and extends unusually far on the right side of the O.  The surface of the double also does not appear to be flat bur is als "textured" and irregular.