1972 double die

Just found this piggy bank searching. Doubling very strong in "In God We Trust" and "Liberty", but
not as much in date.---John

 

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John it looks good to me, I don't know what variety it is but it does appear to be a true DDO.

 

Lucky find! Good one!

 

Year I graduated from high school. Guess I just admitted I was as
old as dirt, but not yet to older than dirt. I have a lot of these wth
one or two letters doubled but not this good. Now if I can find that '55.---John

 

Looks good to me too. I think it's #2.
Look it up here and match it up.http://www.coppercoins.com/advsearch.php

 

Thanks, I just looked it up and it seems to be 002. I am guessing that because
it was in a piggy bank it would be circulated, maybe AU50? The Red Book doesn't
give ratings for Memorials, only Wheats.---John

 

Wow, I have done 14 boxes of cents (35000) and I haven't found one. Nice find.

 

keep lookin

keep lookin :hail:

 

^ Was that directed toward me? If so, I have found plenty of other stuff, just no DDs.

Of couse I always want to find stuff so I will keep looking.

 

Nice!

 

I wanted to grade this so I looked at my 1972 MS60 Cent in my Dansco Lincoln Memorial album.
The MS60 cent has an extra line in the diagonal line of the N in "In" and the G, O, and D look filled
in the inside bottom of each letter. Another error type? Would it be worth having the 002 type graded
and by who? Just curious.---John

 

Looks like there's some on the GOD as well. Take a better pic just focusing (straight on, not angled) on the IN GOD portion, pls.

 

I am not sure about the G,O,and D but there is what looks like die errors or
cracks in the word TRUST for sure.---John

 

This better? My blow up on My Pictures shows better than here. I see E in We and T, R, S, T in trust have some kind of die error.

 

One of the best ways I can tell a true DDO on some of these is to look at the 'B' in "LIBERTY" and yours is a true DDO. Congrats and nice find!

 

With those small pictures it's impossible to determine if it's a doublED die.

 

Thad, which one? Piggy Bank '72 or BU '72? I don't think
the MS63 one is, looks like die errors. The Piggy Bank find
definitely is . I blew pictures up on My Pictures and it
is a type 002 DDO.---John

 

Yes, much better representation, and I do not see anything special about this coin. I think it has no doubling and the errors or cracks look like normal stuff I'd see on a cent at times. No premium. But the coin itself is a really nice specimen. Congrats!

 

Regardless of the distant photos, the first 72 is most definitely a DDO while the second appears to be nothing more than an example of the master doubling so common this year. Also, unless you know exactly what you're looking for, using the B in LIBERTY is not a good identifier for doubled die identification on 72-P Lincolns. If you examine a master doubled coin (as mentioned above) you will see that the B is doubled, albeit in a different manner.