1955 Doubled Die

A freind of mine has a 1955 Doubled Die that he has for sale on ebay.

It's pretty nice but it shows corrosion though.

I told him he should have it conserved and slabbed like I've heard you all talk about. (BTW, is a coin needing conservation automatically sent to NCS if it is submitted to NGC?)

Wouldn't he be way better off? I would think he'd get more money for it?

(I know my photgraphic skills are lacking. In hand it's a red-brown color.)

 

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No offense but the photo is so small you cant identify anything on that penny, let alone the year and if the penny is double die
Bigger pics please

 

I can't get a good look at the coin to answer. However, sometimes conservation is worthwhile and other times not. If it is truly corroded, there is probably not much of anything that can be done to help it.

 

Sorry about the pictures.

Let me try again.

The color is closer to correct too.

 

Has he had the authenticity verified? There are some areas on the reverse that look funny to me.

 

I don't like the looks of the chin or ear, it should be authenticity verified first.


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I am not an expert on these coins, but I personally think it would have helped in the auction.

 

agreed.

 

Mark can tell you more about what can be done to conserve the coin. However, were I to buy a coin like that on eBay, I would be very hesitant to bid more than about 2/3 its value due to the fear of a counterfeit. I would further guess that I am one of teh more trusting eBay bidders on this site.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/1955-Doubled-Di...mQQptZCoins_US_Individual?hash=item3ca9772962

Above is the auction for a little better look.

 

Thanks all for your thoughts.

Some of your comments made me worried about it being authentic so I dug out PCGS' Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection.

It says that an easy tell of original is die lines to the left and parallel to the T in cents.

I can't see them with 20 power lens on the coin nor on an MS64 picture that I took off of Heritages site. What kind of magnification is used to see die lines?

 

I know from recent experience that sometimes those lines can be near impossible to see depending on wear and other factors(and I was using a 30x loupe). As for my comments earlier about the reverse looking funny, after seeing the Ebay picture it looks clean to me. On the photo you had originally posted I thought I saw some die gouge marks.

Here's a great article with photos comparing a counterfeit to the real deal.

http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/1955/55counter.html

 

Yea, I think you are! I wouldn't go 2/3s.

Thanks a lot! If I can confirm it is genuine, I can concentrate on trying to get my bull-headed freind to send the thing in to be preserved and slabbed.

 

I've received photo's from the seller and the coin looks genuine to me. But then, I'm no expert. I just compared what Chuck posted on his coppercoins.com website.
I've asked permission to post the photo's here so if he gives that, then I'll share.

 

The key to that may be what I value the coin at.

 

I got permission:

 

Could be because there isn't much contrast on the face side, but I'm not seeing the strong doubling in the lip and nostril that should be present.

 

Does that ear look funny to anyone else?

 

Why should there be "strong doubling in the lip and nostril"? The die was rotated around the center. The closer you are to the center, the less doubling there is.. Just look at "LIBERTY". The "L" is strongly doubled and separated but the "Y" has little separation at least comparatively.

 

Though not as dramatic as the doubling in the outer devices, it should be there. Left side is the real one.

http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/1955/1955counter4.jpg