1955 S S/S/S North also a Double Die?

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  1. edduns

    edduns Senior Member

    Found some doubling on the S in trust - just wondering if it could be a DD?
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  3. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    Nice! RPM-001
    I see doubling in Trust.
    Can you take another picture.
    Maybe a full pic of liberty to see if it is the same S/s/S Die.
     
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  4. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    Looks more like MD on the motto to me, but that is a nice S/S/S :)
     
  5. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    I think logic would dictate - knowing this is a single die, and having been studied so extensively as a major RPM - someone might have already noticed if it was also a DD. And the rest of the examples would show the same doubling. Therefore, we must assume your example is MD.
     
  6. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    The die chip at the bottom of the 5 does not come up on variety vista.
    It is he only reason I asked.
     
  7. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    It's pretty prominent in the writeup at the Lincoln Cent Resource. That's the problem with text-only writeups.
     
  8. edduns

    edduns Senior Member

    Sorry about the pic. being so bad. Ed
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  9. Markus1959

    Markus1959 Well-Known Member

    RPM, die scratches, die crack, doubling (probably MD) - this coin has it all! NICE find !!!
     
  10. TJ1952

    TJ1952 Well-Known Member

    Plus a little struck thru on the O on ONE??
     
  11. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    That's a typically weak spot on Lincolns, being directly opposite a very metal-hungry area of the obverse. You can only throw so much metal around in the milliseconds of a strike - what, maybe 100 milliseconds to strike a Lincoln at 150 per minute and factoring feed and outfeed? - so this has to be considered a design flaw from a minting standpoint. It's a prime place to help identify a "good" strike on a Lincoln.
     
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  13. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    Yes. Lincoln's deep bust swallows those up.
     
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  14. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    I'm not touching that. :p
     
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  15. edduns

    edduns Senior Member

    Thanks all for your reply's. I will just put it away for my daughter and in 30 years she can sell it or give it to a boyfriend.
     
  16. rzage

    rzage What Goes Around Comes Around .

    Nice RPM .
     
  17. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    It's worth that. This coin is still one of the most prominent repunched mint marks in the entire Lincoln series, and years from now when there are no coins in circulation and only collectors have coins, it will still be in demand.
     
  18. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    I have been looking for the write up, in Lincoln cent resourse and have not been able to find it. Any help?
     
  19. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

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  20. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    Interesting. That is definitely the same S/S/S shown on lincolncentresource.com, but that S in TRUST looks deceptively split. I think I'd have fallen for it if the RPM weren't there to tell me there was probably only one obverse die for these.
     
  21. rmpsrpms

    rmpsrpms Lincoln Maniac

    After going through a hoard of 55-S rolls a while back, I ended up with about 15 of these across all the known stages. I just looked at them all and none show any sort of split on TRUST.
     
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