Found a 87-d error cent in pocket change

If you can't find both volumes at B&N, go to Whitman books online.

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https://www.whitman.com/store/Inventory/Browse/Whitman-Books/page/3

They are $39.95 each.

Chris

 

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Wow, that's quite the find; thank you for pointing it out. I'm afraid I'm not a collector of proof coins but top pop mint error is pretty darn awesome.

 

Amazon has the as well, free shipping if you use Prime.

 

I don't disagree with you on MD, unless we're talking about ones I think are DDO/DDR I am actually living in Texas at the moment but you were last in the Northwest before I was born so the seeing you reference means your profile commenting on errors.

 

As a Mint Error, it was not listed in the NGC Census. It wasn't until it became a CPG variety that it qualified for the census.

Chris

 

Well, I guess it's possible that you could have seen me at the Shark Shootout (pool tournament) on South Padre Island in 1999.

Chris

 

I don't have a Volume II of any CPG. What was the coin, Chris.

 

I have found a lot of cents with that type of doubling on Liberty. I have seen one listed on e-bay for $900.00 as a "BIE error" which of course it's not. I call these "plating doubling" because to me it looks like the strike impact pushed some of the soft heated metal to rise in between the letters. It is probably just a form of MD but I don't think it's actually on the die, just a sideways slippage. IMHO for what it's worth.

 

I don't have a photo after it was listed in the CPG. Here are the original photos. The close-up was taken when it was still in the Proof Set.....cardboard dust and all.

 

Oh yeah. I remember now. Very cool gouge! And, nice discovery, might I add!

 

nice

 

it's the result of ide deterioration on a copper-plated zinc cent. This is normal on later die state coins. Sometimes the L and I of LIBERTY almost dissapear. Prior to that, the letters appear doubled.

 

die deterioration....sorry about the typo