1968-S Lincoln Memorial Cent Double Die Whole Front

1968-S Lincoln Memorial Cent DDO. Added Pictures

Everything is doubled. Even lincoln and the mint mark is doubled upwards. The back is normal. Pictures are about 5 posts down. Any idea on what this is worth? Please someone answer. :smile

 

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Easy to see with a 4x Eye piece. Can see doubled with naked eye.

 

We haven't answered yet because the pics aren't up. Be assured we will. pm me if you get no response, but need pictures.

 

I've got to see this. I've saved a few rolls of 1968-s

 

The extreme machine doubling can be found on the 1968-1971 cents. With the devices doubled and the mint mark doubled makes me come to that conclussion without images. It is just the nature of the beast to have both doubled. Die movement during the strike makes the devices damaged the same during the strike. Very common. No extra value for this.

 

If you need more pictures please let me know. I can get more easy.

 

Looks like machine doubling. Cool find but no added value, unfortunately.

 

But its very odd that the mintmark and the rest of the front was doubled. Someone told me that the mintmark was added after the coin was struck? If so how did it also get doubled?

 

The dies move during the strike and push the devices one way or another. Just a damaged coin. It happens a lot.

 

Darn.... thought i hit a gold mine. Well thats a shame. Life goes on tho! Thanks for the help! Guess ill hold on to it and hope one day it will be worth something.

 

That someone would be wrong. It would be very difficult for the Mint to add a RAISED mintmark to a coin after it has been struck. That would be a monumental (essentially impossible) job to add mintmarks to 258 million cents struck in San Francisco, not to mention the nearly 2.9 billion coins struck in Denver that year.

As coop explained above, the mintmark was added to the obverse Working Die by hand after the die was hubbed. If the die were doubled the doubling on the die would have occurred before the mintmark was added. That means a coin struck with a doubleD die would typically have doubling everywhere but the mintmark.

You say your coin has doubling everywhere, including the mintmark. The logical explanation is strike doubling (which has been explained numerous times in other threads).

 

Ok, I know i havent replied in a while. But as i was gettin ready to put it a flip i noticed that the "In God We Trust" was not doubled.

 

Machine doubling can be selective. It can affect one letter/area/side or just the mint mark. It just depends on how the twist/movment of the dies affect the coin made. The dies are normal, just the striking was distorted. On a doubled die, the doubling is caused because it is on the die, not happening during the striking. Az shown here on several coins with the same die pair with the same die movement with different parts affected:

 

Hi,

I think I have a very different one as mine is very definable doubling as well as the entire right side of Abe Lincoln from the bottom all the way to his forehead. Please look at the pistures. It could be a sleeper like the 1969 S DDO as not many of the 1968 S DDO has been reported. At least this one is very different then the 2-3 that I have seen posted on these boards.
Jay

 

VERY RARE 1968-S DDO? Please Look!

Hi,

I have a very distictive 1968 S Double Die Lincoln Cen t. Well its a lot different then the 2-3 that I have seen listed on any site or boards. The date is very doubled as well as the "S" and Abe Li ncoln's hole right side is doubled as well. I haven't seen this one on any site yet. Can it be a sleeper like the 1969 S DDO?

PLMK
Thanks Jay

 

Read this, I don't need to explain it!

If the mintmark was doubled (yes), it's strike doubling

(This same year/mintmark is my avatar)

 

Could be MD ,though there is also a first for everthing.. check here for 68-s DDO: http://www.coppercoins.com/diesearch.php

other good sites: http://doubleddie.com/300201.html

http://koinpro.tripod.com/Articles/OtherFormsOfDoubling.htm

http://www.briansvarietycoins.com/listings

 

Hi,

Thaks I guess its nothing to be excited about then? I haven't seen it listed in any book, or even on the websites that Shoewrecky gave me. And thanks for thiose sites, I am new to this wholle ERROR stuff. I appreciatte the knowledge and any info what you can tell me on this coin as it is doubled on the date and Lincoln. It could be that when they struck the "S" it just happened to get doubled by mistake at the same time?

Thanks for your time.
Jay