Hard to believe it got past QC at the mint. If you have one I’d hang on to it. It may be valuable to collectors.
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The 1 ounce gold and silver bullion coins have a missing reed as an anti-counterfeiting measure. Per the US Mint web site, “The one ounce coin includes anti-counterfeit variable reeding.”
Are you talking about the Type II with the so-called Bald Eagle on the back with a beak that is HALF the size it should be so-as to make it intentionally appear WEAK and FEEBLE?
This is a deliberate anti-counterfeiting feature of the new coins. It’s hard to take a fake fully-reeded coin, and add just enough metal to the reeding to make one of the grooves perfectly vanish.
As a point of interest, do the older American Eagle coins have any numismatic value besides the value of their gold weight?
I see US Mint boxed sets of 1987 1oz and 1/2 oz Proof American Eagles listed for $4000+ on Ebay. This price seems far above the current price of gold.
Have you weighed it, if so it is light?
It is a new security feature. End of story.