I found this dime, can't tell if it is 1962-D, 1966-D, 1968-D or a double struk one with two of these dates. My pictures aren't so great, but it's the best I can do. What about the scratches, is it the mint's fault or are they like that?
Hi, First things first. It cant be a 1962-D as the mintmark is in the wrong place. On Roosevelt Dimes, the mintmark was on the reverse from 1964 and earlier. The mintmark on your coin is on the obverse, under Roosevelt's neck and above the date. As for the rest, it is simply damaged after it left the mint. Thanks, Bill
Ok. However, it does look doubled although you can't see in the picture, so it's a double strike from 1966 and 1968. That is possible, right?
Not really. In the first place, there couldn't be dies dated two years apart in use at the same time. In the second place, overdates are created when the date on a die is altered, not when two dies strike the same coin which is so precisely oriented in the second coin press that there is little or no doubling of other freatures. Sorry my friend, what you have is a badly damaged coin.
Not Possible here. It is all damage and the date has probably been altered by whatever the initial damage is.
Now with this coin it is damage...but it is possible to have a coin dated many years apart...I think the most I saw was 13 years...and yes...it was a real mint error---Mike Buyers had it. Speedy
If it was a 1962 the edge would be all silver and in 1966 and 1968 it would be clad (silver and copper color).
I think the record is 70 years apart, and the "error" was "helped". It was a proof 1970-S quarter struck on a 1900 Philadelphia Barber quarter. And I agree this is just a damaged 1968-D dime. Can't be a 62-D, mintmark is on the wrong side. Can't be a 1966-D, they didn't have mintmarks in 1966. And I'm not sure whether they struck 1966 dimes in Denver anyway.
For sure it is after Mint damage but I really wonder what happened to that poor coin. Almost looks intensional. Even our Mint wouldn't make a coin that looked that bad now would they?
CK, 1918/7 is only one year apart. I think they were talking about 1918/16 kind of.. on a side note. I have a slabbed 1900 Morgan that is O/CC now there is a mystery. It had to travel from Now Orleans to Carson City on the pony express!
Not really....it was only the die... and the mintmark was something put on the die at the P mint....so then it would be easy to change....other times when they sent out the dies to the mint to have the mark put on it the die when needed would be found at any of the mints and then sent back to P and the P would send it to the mint that needed it...therefore that is how it got both. Speedy
The fact is that the coin in the photo above isn't real....the Buff nickel happened this way... In 1917 the mint had the dies...and at the end of the year the die was still in good shape, and that is something you don't just put in the dump.....so they took a 8 and put it over the 7....so they could use it for more coins. Speedy
