1983 Zinc Small Date DDR ??

Does this look liike the coin in "Strike it rich with pocket change" 3rd edition?

 

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@cpm9ball I think you know more about this SIR book than anyone else!

 

what does that mean

 

FWIW, I've never owned a copy of this book. Several years ago, I came across a copy of it on a table at a used book sale sponsored by the Lee Co. (FL) Public Library. I took the time to browse through the book and decided that $1.00 was too much to pay for it.

Chris

 

That's because YouTube videos are free !!

 

Perfect reply. I would have paid a quarter.

 

IMHO, even 25c would have been too much.

Chris

 

I don't frequent BoobTube, either!

Chris

 

It's the 1982 that had small and large dates.
I don't believe the 1983 does.
The valuable coins are the 1982-D small date copper and the 1983-D copper.
All of these coins with doubled dies doesn't do anything for me, unless it is something desirable like the 1955 or the 1969-S.

 

They switched to the small date zinc in the mid 82 correct so all 83's should be small date then. Throw that book in the trash and disregard 99% of youtube videos .

 

Strike It Rich and the associated You tube videos are major sources of false hopes and in many cases, misinformation. I feel that sources like these do a great disservice to the hobby. Finding valuable errors in circulation is possible, but it’s extremely rare. Yet many of these sites fail to mention this. So people post their common machine doubled 1969-S cent or “No S” Philly business strike and get upset when they are told their coin is only worth face value.

 

Don't know what kind of garbage is in Strike it Rich but if the coin doesn't look like this, then it is not valuable.

If SIR doesn't have a pic showing this, then it's worthless as a reference.

 

^^^^
OK that one is nice. But I see all of these coins/ varieties with DD's and I wonder how valuable can they be if, the doubling is minor and, it's on every year?

 

my avatar is what the 82 sm date zinc double die has to look like

 

I just assumed the OP saw something about the 83 DDR and this is the only one that has any value

 

I was thinking the same ..
Lol ...

 

This is not the only 83 DDR FS-801(036) that's in the cherrypickers guide . There's also FS-802 .....

 

OP . How about a couple of images taken just like these .