Found this 2016 P Shawnee NP quarter in pocket change and noticed the MM and, quarter dollar, were strange looking..this a DDO?
Unfortunately not. This is Die Deterioration Doubling (DDD), but doesn't add value to a coin. Here's a link to some good information on these type of errors. http://www.error-ref.com/die-deterioration-doubling/
You think this news is disappointing? Imagine finding this on a 1969-S Mint State cent. It makes your EKG jump and dance.
I've been there. Went through a bag of 69-s cents and found a bunch of MD's. Took them to the Santa Clara show and one collector was so excited about them that he traded me 10 1972 DDO's for 10 of them. I told him they were not the 69-s DDO's, but I guess he wanted to believe they were. Imagine how disappointed he was. I guess one could call them the Poor Man's 69-s DDO, like they do with the 55 DDO.
Thanks..love gaining knowledge about different types.. Have many steelies that show this..and a few NP quarters.showing this same error type..and ya my heart did jump a few beats ahead..lol..hoping he was a new DDO..great info and definitely will share..
Prepare yourself for the day, coming sooner than most know, that the term "steelie" will have a new meaning - the new U.S. five cent piece, likely coming by 2020. It would have been next year had copper and nickel prices not fallen.
Have noticed too that a lot of Philadelphia mint coins.. Cents up to NP quarters ..last and this years production..show this type of error..
If you put almost any recent equivalent circulating coins from Philly and Denver side by side. you'll see Denver is running rings around Philly in quality. Philly is stinking the joint up. And it's not all the fault of 50 miles of small towns using the Schuylkill River as a sewer, either.
After posting that, I thought maybe he's on CT and will chime in. But, that was around 30 years ago. Didn't ask him for a card and after he insisted on trading, I ran to my car with my trade.
It would be great if one could actually see the process of how error coins become the type most common..or wanted I should say..
Yup, and every worker in every company that rolls coins from giant pallet sized bags has Fred Weinberg's business card, on paper or in their smartphones. Fred himself pretty much said so at the 2015 Spring ANA at Portland.
According to the people who complain on "Parking Wars" we can blame the Philadelphia Parking Authority. Chris
