Any opinions on this? I got it a while back from my dad, and I just realized the mintmark was doubled about a year ago. I haven't seen any formal documentation that it has been discovered. Any help would be greatly appreciated. http://api.photoshop.com/home_265fc...be-px-assets/f3e64ec1a69f4a4d82f0e3db7c16c9bc http://api.photoshop.com/home_265fc...be-px-assets/2d2b00916dad4fe7b75428bb199911bc
Looks like a RPM to me. Yours is very cool!! A repunched mintmark, or RPM, is a coin that exhibits two or more images of the same mintmark, caused by errors in the punching of the mintmark onto the coin die (or very rarely, onto the hub.) Up until 1990, the U.S. Mint used to manually punch the mintmark into each individual coin die
No it is not an RPM No it is not an RPM it is mechanical doubling of a type very common to this issue. Most RPM's must have a fairly distinct separate doubled element to be one - in other words as in this case the second "S" cannot appear so "ghost like" and flattened as this - we have seen many of these in the steel issues both P & D. I have seen this die many times and it is never an RPM just wishful thinking - when you see a true RPM, for the most part it will have serifs that are almost as distinct as the primary although many times lighter but still have rounded images on both D's or S's. Not an RPM.
Thanks. How about this D/D? http://api.photoshop.com/home_265fc...be-px-assets/2a69d189133244aa94d88ffbad7f32bb
I cannot see it well enough but does not look like one either I cannot see it well enough but does not look like one either.
Just picked this one up today. It is definitely doubled, I'm just not sure if it is mechanical. http://api.photoshop.com/home_265fc...be-px-assets/cddaf8ebf0bd4bb99dcf285b12b79796 Sorry the pics are blurry. Let me know if they need to be better.
Youre first picture looks like an example of the grease shadow Mike D was talking about. When I get home I'll post a link.
I recommend you pick up a copy of the Cherrypicker's guide. My version at least (Volume 1, 4th edition) has an excellent explanation of all types of doubling, explaining how to tell the difference, and with lots of pictures.
Here's the link I was referring to. http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t34163/ Please don't post there, that thread is quite old.
