Is your camera lense dirty? Should clean the outside if it every time you take a new set of pictures. But besides that. Here are a few pictures that you can compare with your coin. Not sure if you know the correct term for this but it's called over mint mark or as the people refer to it here as OMM Must look like one of these two pictures without a reasonable doubt. It could also be an RPM (repunched) but we gotta weed through it all till we know for sure it's not one of these two
@CoinKing187 I think is using a low megapixel USB camera. They are really bad for taking pictures of coins. King.. use a normal background for your pictures. Your other coins are distracting... also use show Large Image and not thumbnail when posting pics. Peace
Ok.. Man it's always something,who says it has to be 100% like them? And mine one hair of the punch and do alot of change..so that means it can't be what it's supposed to be even though it really is?
No one is telling you what to do....they simply are trying to help you image and use the correct terms in your post. If you're not the type of person who is open to learning or exploring new knowledge they this isn't the hobby for you. There's a tad bit more to it than looking at dates and mint marks and putting a coin in an album hole. Reading and learning is fundamental in this hobby .
Everyone that studies and understands die varieties, that's who. If it doesn't look exactly like the die you think it is, it simply could not have been struck by that die. Hope this helps.
New finding do still come about. Usualy through hours and hours of searching, and a real good knowledge of what to look for. And having the right equipment to find them and share with with others who know more you do. Which is what you are trying to do. I can see your photos, but when I enlarge them they become pixelated and blurry. My 8.1 mega-pixel does not work well when I enlarge photos. If your are sure that you have a new variety you can always send it in to Mr. Wexler. http://www.doubleddie.com/1801.html
It is sometimes easy to forget that those less familiar with dies may not be able to understand or relate to what's being said when mentioning or writing of them, so perhaps consider this... If you've some play dough or maybe hot glue (or the like) around the house, take a meaningless coin, say a 1964-D cent, and if using play dough, make a ball slightly larger than the coin's diameter, making sure it's very smooth (no ridges, etc). Now, slowly and carefully press the coin into it. If using hot glue, take the coin and set it on some sort of hard surface that won't be damaged by it. Now, put the glue through the gun and slowly cover the coin. Regardless of the method used (there are plenty of others), now slowly peel the coin away from whatever you used and look at the "impression" it's left behind. No, this isn't as exacting as a die, but if done correctly, what you should see is an exact negative of the coin used, and mimics what an actual die looks like. Now, the point behind using a 64-D cent as an example is that the mintmarks were hand punched at that time, and generally speaking means you couldn't take any other cent of the same date/mint, place it on your negative, and have an exact match unless it was produced from the same die. This, in its most rudimentary form, is why a coin does need to be "100% like them" in order to be the variety. While somewhat on the subject of mintmark locations, take a moment to very closely compare yours to the photos Tyler posted; do you see the ever so slight difference in positions? This is absolute proof your coin was not produced by the same die, and means it cannot be the same variety. While this isn't something that can be used for any potential variety, it is a good tool for those with hand-punched mintmarks. With the understanding that this is a rather uncommon approach, I do hope it helps you better understand.
