1976 D PENNY ERROR?

This webpage will explain the differences - http://doubleddie.com/144801.html

It's worthless doubling

 

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one 76 d coming right up. oh ya I'm not sure either

 

If that's the only two known then this is rare then right

I have one look at this

 

Any idea of its worth? not magnetic and appears to be silver. How can you tell if it is nickel coated? (just by weight?)

 

It is just plated, you can see where the plating is chipped away at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

 

Obviously plated.

 

MD or machine doubling occurs after the die contacts the coin metal. If the die is even a fraction loose in the machine it can move as the strike occurs or as the die lifts up from the strike causing a MD. The Die is where the difference in naming and pricing is produced . Before 1996 or close, the dies were squeezed multiple time to produce a strong image, ( depending on what coin they were making, but usually 2 ) so if the die that is going to produce the actual coin, is right on image alignment wise, for the 2 squeezings, it should produce a coin with a single image . But if that single image die slips, slide, vibrates even a fraction of a mm, it can produce a MD doubling effect, but the worn old machine or tired worker's action produced it , and not the mint, so it is of very little or zero extra value.
If however , in the process of multiple squeeze die production the worker misaligned the 2 squeezes, there will be 2 overlapping images and that will then transfer to the coin. That is a mint error and a "True" DD or Doubled die coin and is much more valuable than a normal or MD one.

Coins after that date are only squeezed once and then it gets..............odd to say the least...., and hundreds or thousands or more MD coins are spread around the world. Easy to find and the bane of the forum as too many people see $$ on the coins rather than the normal portrait.

Jim

 

Thanks~I thought so but wanted to be sure. Cheers to you all for chiming in!

 

Hey, I found a 1976 penny with the "LIBERTY" part looks like"LI8ERTY" have you ever seen or heard that? I can send pic if u want to look

 

Sounds like the B took a hit so it now looks like an 8. Copper is soft and easily displaced. This is very common on Cents.