Im sure its not the big one! But this doesnt look like MD to me . First 1 found if its the real deal..
Sorry, I don't look at cents minted after 1982. LOL To me, it looks like DDD, but then, as I've said before, I don't look for them.
Let me try to explain this. No guarantees it's going to get across. Fair enough? Take two cents. Put one flat on the table. Put the other one on top, but slightly ajar. Do you see the part on the bottom cent that's showing? That's analogous to the first image punched in a doubled die, or the inferior punch. The top cent is analogous to the second image punched, or the superior punch. Assuming you got all that, this is what you need to note. The top cent, or the superior punch, will always show 100% intact, just like this top cent is showing 100% intact. That means when you observe distortion or foreshortening in that second or superior punch, it's not a doubled die. What is it? It's what you've got, here, strike doubling, due to an unsecured planchet, resulting in a hop or slide. Finally, the experts don't think so, and what about that? That one's the easiest. Tell them go to hell or collect stamps or some damn thing, they're in the wrong business.
I think he's saying " his " explanation, or example is MD . Lets hope he's not talking about the OP coin ....
Everything matches up to the markers on my specimens. I have seven or eight of them in MS65 RD and MS66 RD (unfortunately ANACS graded) and a couple crappy ones that are spotted. I sold maybe four or five crappy spotted ones (and I mean really spotted) at levels of around $80 to $100 each on eBay. I have never offered a sold MS65+ for sale so I have no idea of value other than the price in CPG made me roll over laughing! Not surprising though since James Wiles got his grubby fingers into the CPG pie on at least pricing RPMs and Doubled Dies and when I asked why prices were so low he said he was basing it on what "real collectors" would pay and not the price levels Registry Set collectors will pay (presumably they are not "real collectors"). This was the last of the significant DDRs for 1983 that got into the Cherrypickers' Guide only because neither Bill or JT could find a specimen to photograph until I came up with a few. It's been about a dozen years since I acquired them but before that the only one I had ever seen was a specimen shown to me by Jim Lafferty at Errorama 1986 held at the Garden State Numismatic Society convention in Cherry Hill. That's 36 years ago and in that time I have only seen the few I have, Jim's coin and now this one! Obviously I must of missed a few but not many if so.
Yes, he did! Great knowing he posted on my thread. I enjoy all of his postings on facebook. Nice Pics also!
