Ok, have a look at this IH. See if you see a double 5...or should I just get new glasses? lol hover over the pic to get a closeup, any and all comments welcome, thanks
Not that I can find, but...maybe sometimes things are overlooked because they see the date, look it up and don't really look closely at the coin because it isn't listed. I mean if these types of things are rare as people say, then...? Do you think it would be worth it to have someone who knows about these things take a look at it?
I don't see a repunched date (RPD), maybe a little Longacre type of doubling. At first I thought it might be a misplaced date (MPD) due to the filling in the denticles below the tail of the "5", maybe the top of another 5, but after consideration, probably not. Jim
I looked up longacre doubling and saw some examples. Longacre doubling appears to be outline doubling along the edges of the object such as this http://www.coinresource.com/images/articles/star.jpg and this, http://www.coinresource.com/images/articles/hat.jpg. But in the picture I posted there appears to be much more than just the outline doubled in the numbers from what I can see...?
Do you have a photo editing program that would let you put arrows where you see it? That would help a lot. Jim
Let me try a couple of things, probably the best that I can do is circle where I think stuff is going on at and maybe put a larger picture on imageshack, gimme a min or 2, thanks.
Ok, here's a couple of images, first, with no crayon marks on it and now, with my scribbling on it...sorry
Ok, with the constant disclaimer one must give with even the best of photos, that is (appears to be .... rather than it is ......) The top of the one is normal. Most BU cents of that era shows the rounded top. But some wear or post mint damage can reduce the thickness. The other marks between the 1 and the 5 look as maybe longacre or even slight machine doubling. Longacre doubling has several theories, but the easiest for me to accept is that since the date was punched in at the same time on a single punch device by hand, if it was punched perpendicular and with the right force, a perfect date occurred. If too much force, the back support of each number contacted the coin and left a little "halo" around it. If the punch was not perpendicular, the doubling might just be visible on one side. I think that is what is happening except for the top of the "1" and the inside of the "5", which I think is a slight die crack or surface scratch. etc. I can't find any RPD similar in my references. IHC can be frustrating at times, but still one of my favorites! Jim
Hey, I'm just glad you guys take the time to share your thoughts with me. I'm not looking to break the bank with any of the coins, because in all reality, that's probably not going to happen. I'm just interested in how things happen. I think I said in my first post here that I inherited quite a few coins from when my dad passed. Well, I haven't even begun to get near thru all of them because I'm looking at each one thru the microscope I got just for this and they are all different. And actually, going thru them like this, makes you more curious (at least that's what's happening to me anyway) about how coins are made and how they wind up being messed up. Even if I did find something that might be worth a chunk of change, I'd still have to think long and hard about selling it because my dad's had these for years and left them to me. I'll probably just hang on to them and pass them on to my son when the time comes.
To be honest, very few of finds are big buck items. For that, they just about have to be visible with the naked eye and be rare. For example, the 1995 Lincoln DDO can be seen with the plain eye, but a MS-63 goes for under a $100, and I have some MS68 that are around $200. The problem is that there seem to 100,000 or more Jim
