horrible conditoin DDR 1982 penny.

i found a VG DDR 1982 penny. here's a pic. can someone tell me the value of this penny?

 

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With the DDR not pictured, as there may be one or many types, and the higher probability it is MD, I am going to say one cent.

 

How do we know it is really doubled? Can you take a better picture and one of the reverse please? I wouldn't put a price on it unless it is truly doubled die.

 

whats MD?

 

my camera dosen't have that good of a zoom.

 

Machine doubled...double done after it left the mint.

 

Don't think so.

 

Oops I meant at the mint...I'm an idiot when I type fast.

 

Better definition: Machine double happens at the mint but not as a result of the die hitting the coin twice but another issue.

 

so, whats it worth in that condition, i mean the penny.

 

If it is MD then it's worth one cent but we can't tell unless we see pictures. Try holding up a strong magnifying glass to your camera lens then taking a picture. That sometimes works.

 

Wrong again. What you are describing is a double-struck coin (i.e., a coin that was struck twice by the dies). The OP thinks he has a doubled die which is a coin that is struck by a die that has doubling on the die. Machine doubling (aka, strike doubling) is damage that may look like doubling and is caused by movement of a die (usually the hammer die) when it retracts just after striking the coin.

 

Yeah that's what I said...due to something else not double striking.

 

machine doubling:

 

Did you draw-up this diagram? If so, nice job! :thumb:

-Brian

 

although the image is blurry it appears to be a large date zinc. The 82 DDR is on the small date zinc. The reverse would look like my avatar if it were the real doubled die.

Richard

 

I don't think you quite grasp the point I was trying to make.

What you are calling "double striking" is not the same as a doubled die. Double striking is when a coin is struck twice by the dies.

A doubled die coin is a coin that was struck once (twice or more for a Proof coin) by a die that has doubling.

 

I know that I was just defining the term, he asked what it meant.

 

You don't use zoom for a close up photo--just turn on your macro mode.

 

Nope. Another member posted it and I keep it handy for reference.