Well, some of you may know that I have found quite a few machine doubled coins from circulation, and my question is; What the heck do I do with them? They aren't worth anything really are they? What do you guys do with them, throw them back into circulation? Thanks, Josh
I'm sure you could get $2-$4 on ebay for them, if it is worth the bother to you? Or, if you are in a coin club and they have an auction, you can probably sell them there for $1.50 to $2....
I keep every single one of them I find. I find them fun to look for and some are quite dramatic which makes for good show-and-tell. Then I stick them in 2x2's and into a coin book. Maybe someday my great grandchildren will make a buck or two off of them.
Hobby: NO! A double strike is a coin that has been struck 2 times by a die. The ones shown are rare and very collectible. Strike doubling (aka: Machine doubling, and other things) is considered damage by the die 'scraping' along the coin and giving a flat shelf like appearance to the lettering on the coin. No value for the strike doubling. Someone will be along shortly and give you a good link to the difference.
Link to Ken Potter's site and info and pics of different types of Doubling- http://koinpro.tripod.com/Articles/OtherFormsOfDoubling.htm I have kept several of the ones I have found, plus as has been said, there are a lot of collectors who collect these. Look on ebay and you will find some listed often with different discriptions, but they still sell. Bill
Thanks for the info. I have found a lot of 90's cents with the "machine doubling" seems to be common. The terms can be confusing as they are named similar.
Keep the strong ones for show and tell, Keep the strong ones for show and tell, after you learn to tell the true doublED dies from these you can pass that knowledge on to others. But please, please don't list them on eBay as "poor mans doublED dies" unless they are 1955-P's and even then they are just worn out and overpolished dies that struck coins. Listing any coin other than a 1955-P with mechanical/machine doubling and then calling it a "poor mans doublED die" is again a perfect example of people taking information from one coin and transferring it to another all for the sake of "a sale" - it ain't kosher!
And it could almost take the joy out of collecting to begin with. I don't think they should be sold period unless they're genuine dd but who am I?
