Hey guys! I was looking through some onza's and saw 3 of these struck from the same dies. Lots of extra thickness radial from the letters... What do you think? Is it a DDO? I know there is an 1987 doubled die... but I can't find any reference to an 1982. Mine A non doubled coin from a year later
just my opinion, but it looks like the date and letters were squashed by something that applied pressure.
this is exactly what I was going to say but I see you have it already figured out. every coin this die struck after it got this worn will be identical to each other until the die get's worse . I like it where you say you have three of them . this is what I have been trying to tell folks on here. If you find a mint roll of coins and the roll has a error coin in it then there will usually be more of them from the same dies in the roll. back in late 1982 I had 40 rolls of 83 cent coins and each roll had at least 30 of the #1 die DDR coins. there were way more doubled dies in the rolls than the normal cents. back then I didn't have a computer and kept the coins about a year then decided that they were the worthless MD coins and took them back to the bank. this really has learned me a lesson the hard way and I never did be able to find even one of them back , this is a true story. now when I find a bank that has coin rolls with error coins in them I get all I can from that box the roll came from.I learned the exact date on the little white mint collector boxes that the best detached leg bison 5 cent coins was in and I now have over 400 of them. they averaged out to be about 4 coins per roll , the best roll I found had 11 of them. it appears that the mint workers puts the coins in a bin and send them out to be rolled. evidently the company that rolls the coins just does one bin at the time.
Matt, it looks like MD to me. I couldn't find any separation in the photos that would seem like a DD. Also similar to what Rascal says above, when a die is poorly held in the press, often a large number of MD coins will be produced. I have seen it in original bags of some of the late 60-early 70 S-mint Lincolns, often 100 or more out of 5000, Almost all the same. Jim
Yes, I see doubled die results on the "1", "7" the "e" in Ley, and a few other separated serifs, i would agree about this one. Jim
