I'll finish the rest of the images, after the coin show ends this weekend .One on Coppercoins is MDS and this one is a nice early die state ( EDS ) too Don't mind the dimples, coppercoins has it too . It also weights 2.5 grams .. Here's the link to coppercoins . http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/diestate.php?date=1982&die_id=1982p1do003&die_state=mds
No offense, Rick, but how do you convince someone that your photo is an EDS when the close-up distorts so much of the image? The shadows, alone, hide some of the detail. Chris
The one on coppercoins has lost it's roundness on LIBE, to where mine is still nice and round in thoses lettering . So are the rest of the images on my coin a lot rounder then the one on coppercoins too ...
That's not it Rick. If you notice the pic from Coppercoins site shows the following: The letter I in Liberty is so wide and thick that there is almost no daylight between the I and the B. In your case the I is thick but not at all like the one on the real doubled die. The stalk of the L, and B are much wider on the real one as well. Those 1982's can be deceiving.
Well Richard I have been sitting here for about two hours waiting for those other photos.Say are you going to the show with MR. potter this weekend?I found some wild looking 82 DDO.I would post them but I don't want to high jack your post.
Oh my that is a festering puddle of blisters you have there. Wear gloves! I am not thinking it is the same as the one you link to.
I'll get some images up and see whats going on, just getting in from a long day, Coin show and all . On a good note, 74-D & 73-D Roosevelt(s) turn out good, ( DDOs) small, but good ....
Help setup the Coneca table and talk to people about error coins . Also asked Ken about a good book on die staging ....
I have to pickup a couple of lamps, this trouble light doesn't give off enough light for both sides of the coin .
It's not a doubled die. IGWT on some 1982's has a doubled effect right from the mint. I also found a trail die 1982, and the I in LIBE was wider than yours but not as wide as the DDO pic above. I actually sent that one to Mike Ellis who sent it back as MD.
It's nicely rounded features, a little incuse pit around the letters (common), but no actual doubling, or twisting. If you can't determine the direction of the doubling no one will attribute it. Is it rotated, slid, what class? I'm not seeing it. That's why I gave up on 1982's unless I find one of the few listed varieties. I would see a very strange one and think I had something, but I never did.
