1939 DDR-My Last Purchase Of 2019

I went to my LCS a short time ago and I saw this. The price was right and I had to have it, so I bought it. I bought a few other things as well but this was a great buy.

It's a 1939 Doubled Die Reverse-The word MONTICELLO and FIVE CENTS are clearly doubled. It's difficult to get a photo of it, especially with the 2 x 2 plastic so my apologies for that. Most of the letters are doubled in hand but in the photo you can clearly see the last O is Doubled.

If you look closely you can see Doubling in the other letters. In good to very good condition but a nice error for the low price I paid.

Please enjoy.

 

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Man thats sweet! That O photographed real well. Nice buy!

Note to any beginner....notate this thread and refer to it as needed. Look real closely at that O. THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT IN A DOUBLED DIE. Clear splitting, rounded tops, separation.....all without any scope or aid.

 

Exactly @MatrixMP-9! I like errors and varieties you can see with the naked eye. Actually, it's the only ones I like. Without markers, die scratches running northwest, southwest or east or west and don't need a scanning electron microscope see it.

@Collecting Nut

 

I'm not a variety collector but I do have some varieties that grab my attention in my collection. Shame it's so worn but the doubling is very nice and no help is needed to see it. It's clear with the naked eye which excites me.

You can also see doubling on the N and T in CENTS in the last photo. Just enlarge it a bit. More letters show as doubled in the middle picture. I'm excited about this coin. Does it show?

 

My White Whale. Congrats

 

Noice.

 

Thanks

 

Thanks

 

Many guys here are experts with these errors and varieties. They know and understand the science of numismatics. They get into the minutiae, down into the weeds, looking for the die markers, die scratches or needing arrow to show where these anomalies are actually located.

Unless you're (I'm) actually seeing something like yours, it just seems like a lot time and effort with little reward. On the other side of the coin, I guess it's the search that makes it fun, challenging and interesting.

To me, it's just very rewarding and satisfying to actually see, have or find one like yours.

 

Dang that guy has doubling all over it!! That’s it what I look for in every ‘39 I find!! How many franklin’s did you have to shell out for that beauty!!

edit: what other ones did you pick up?

 

Let me just say this coin was a bargain at the price I paid and it wasn't that much. It takes time to find varieties like this one but it's worth the effort.

 

As you know, I'm not a variety collector but I do find one from time to time that I can't live without. This was one of them once I saw it. My dealer said it's the first one he's had in the last 2-3 years. I think it's a beauty in hand.

 

I found 2 39 doubled

 

The doubling is very easy to spot.

 

Great find!

It looks like the doubling ends up showing fat letters when the doubled ridges of each letter or other features are worn down and smushed together through circulation.

 

you should post them!!

 

Great find! That's the real deal, not MD. Somo bozo on eBay just today is peddling a raw plain jane (MS63ish) 1943 Washington 25c as a DDO coin he surmizes is either a FS-101 or a VP-004 for $59.99, when in reality his pictures of the coin showed MD. And this guy has a 100% seller rating on eBay!

 

It is a good coin for instructing what to look for in a DD. The "O" has good separation and the heights of the doubling is even and rounded , not flattened. The CENTS shows split serifs and they are even heights also unlike machine doubling. The "fat" letters you see are not smushed by circulation, it is caused when the double squeezing is done offset, but the pressure and depths of the two squeezes were done exactly the same except slightly offset.

Hope you don't mind if I show this effect with a different coin where the letters merge.



Notice the similarity in height. Jim

 

Great variety, but not an error.

 

[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 3981055, member: 15199"Hope you don't mind if I show this effect with a different coin where the letters merge.

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Notice the similarity in height. Jim[/QUOTE]
Not at all. Thank you.