The missing Word "CENTS" isn't a minting error, but it was an error in judgement.
The people at the Mint thought that the new coin's size and color would be enough to identify it as a nickel. What they didn't expect was that crooks would plate the coins and pass them off as "new $5 gold piece designs", so later that year the design was modified to include the Word CENTS
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