Doubled Ear???

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  1. Woodman60

    Woodman60 Mercury Dimes Franklin Halves

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  3. Hommer

    Hommer Curator of Semi Precious Coinage

  4. Clawcoins

    Clawcoins Damaging Coins Daily

    Many will reserve comment until full images of the front and back are provided in normal color lighting.
     
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  5. Kevin Mader

    Kevin Mader Fellow Coin Enthusiast Supporter

    Agreed. Do a Search on taking photos and then make another pass at getting us usable pictures. Right now, it's very difficult to make out details to confirm your find. Based on the MDS photos at Coppercoins, your coin isn't a match. But let's rule it out via crisp, clear photos. Take shots that mimic areas where die markers are (using whichever doubled die spread you prefer). We'll do our best to figure out what you have there.
     
  6. Hunting Rare

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  8. White Ger. Shep. Lover

    White Ger. Shep. Lover Well-Known Member

    Sweet new pics, Hunting Rare! I've been coveting a coin like your's since shortly after I first learned to ride a Schwinn. Congrats dude! Even though it's not mine, I'm excited as all get out just to see your DE......sweet coin....sweet pics.....sweet thread.......well done sir!
     
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  9. desertgem

    desertgem Senior Errer Collecktor

    I have doubts. Since it is a 88, it is a type 4 Lincoln portrait, which you have to compare with that group of years. Here is one from google to compare. You can click on the image to magnify.
    http://coinappraiser.com/coins/value-of-1988-lincoln-memorial-cent/

    Also this is in the double squeeze era, and if a doubled die appear in that area , a short distance from the center by rotation or most other doubling, imagine how great the doubling would be on the perimeter lettering. You can't easily have more apparent doubling near the center than on the perimeter, unless it was a rare class of doubling. IMO, Jim
     
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  10. Hunting Rare

    Hunting Rare Active Member

    Hard to get a good picture. But I'm leaning towards yes. Definitely close enough to send in with my next ANACS variety submission.....and if it's a hit.....this coin will be in my next PCGS variety submission. :)
     
  11. White Ger. Shep. Lover

    White Ger. Shep. Lover Well-Known Member


    "If it's a hit"? I like your odds.......scratch that.......I love your odds. Please let us here at CT be the first to know the final verdict, Hunting Rare.
     
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  12. Kevin Mader

    Kevin Mader Fellow Coin Enthusiast Supporter

    Thank you for the new pictures. This is a normal cent. You may want to flip the coin over to check the RDV...it may be another variety. But it isn't a doubled die cent. Good luck on the hunt!!
     
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  13. enamel7

    enamel7 Junior Member

    I have to agree it's a normal cent.
     
  14. Hunting Rare

    Hunting Rare Active Member

    I'm still leaning towards yes because I see doubling in the hair close to the ear, and all other die markers are present. Fingers crossed!

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  15. Kevin Mader

    Kevin Mader Fellow Coin Enthusiast Supporter

    If this were that variety the Y in LIBERTY would look like the specimens online in an MDS or LDS. That’s not the case here. So your coins would have to be an EDS or prior to the die crash obvious in the die redressing which is also absent from your coin. If you had an EDS specimen my feeling would be that the ear doubling would be most obvious. I don’t see that here unfortunately. But pursue this to the end you need to. At worst you are out about $50.
     
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  16. Hunting Rare

    Hunting Rare Active Member

    Good point. I'm leaning towards later MDS or early LDS......the marks to the right of Y in LIBERTY are on my coin they're just not as prominent.

    Here's a pic.......and is that doubling?!?! S20200213_026.jpg S20200213_028.jpg
     
  17. enamel7

    enamel7 Junior Member

    The obvious thing I see on this picture is a well placed hit.
     
  18. Hunting Rare

    Hunting Rare Active Member

    These look promising, no????

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  19. enamel7

    enamel7 Junior Member

    No. There's no doubling on your coins.
     
  20. Kevin Mader

    Kevin Mader Fellow Coin Enthusiast Supporter

    @Hunting Rare Keep in mind that over magnifying something has a couple of unintended effects:

    1. over magnified items are more difficult to see anything; context is lost so you are better off with well focused photos that when enlarged, aren't pixelated
    2. over magnified items tend to show you things that aren't really there; without context, the mind starts to create outcomes that fit a scenario rather than confirming it
     
  21. White Ger. Shep. Lover

    White Ger. Shep. Lover Well-Known Member


    So very true, Kevin. But take another good look at Hunting Rare's 2 pics. They are dead ringers for something that Vincent van Gogh would paint. I absolutely love them. I showed them to my wife, who is sort of an art aficionado, and she went crazy over them. With Hunting Rare's permission, we would like to take his pics to an artist for reproductive purposes. You know, Hunting Rare may not exactly have a future as a grader of coins with PCGS, but do not bet against him being a world renowned artist or at the least, an art photographer one day. Thank you Hunting Rare!
     
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