New Type of Doubling-Who can solve it?

This is a 1999 New Jersey state quarter I came across. Saw with the naked eye that something was unusual. Put the loupe to it and this is what it looked like.



Yes those are clear seperations. I thought I had found a once in a lifetime find. What was it that caused this? The answer is simple, but thought this would be a fun brain teaser so to speak. No, it had nothing to do with camera trickery. Like I said this was visible to the naked eye. The winner gets...well, nothing. Except pride for their cleverness.

 

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Picture not clear. Hard to to tell.

 

Yeah, gotta get a macro lens. However, those areas of the picture where you see clear seperation...that's what it looked like under the loupe also...only clearer!

 

I don't see any clear separation, I see only what looks like reflexions.

 

Look at the verticle columns in the "h" of "the", and the serifs on the 1 in 1999 and the M in "unum". Here's another image.

 

Can you take a picture in focus, and then I can zoom into the areas? Thanks

 

Did someone brush glue on it?

 

Cash Dude-Nope, wasn't that. Good guess though.

 

Cashdude-These pictures are in focus within the lenses parameters. I don't have a macro lens, so I can't focus in this close. These were just cropped close-in in photoshop.

 

My best guess to produce an effect like that would be a double struck coin, second strike slightly shifted. If that is the case, great find!

 

physics fan,

Are you a fan of Feynman?

I wish that were the case, but it was not. I'll give another hint. This coin was found in a set of P&D Unc. that was contained in a holder encased in a folder that had all kind of shiny information about the state of New Jersey.

 

Somehow the holder picked up an image of the coin. Then the coin shifted in the holder. So you are looking at the coin through the holder and the image on the plastic holder.

 

That's an optical ilussion just doubled images from being blured out of some kind trick photography maybe .

The doubling does not have any indications of the one squeeze effect which is a new class of doubling which is class 9 so it's not a doubled die. There is a big differance with the new doubled dies ,there different in there nature compared to the older ones, before the mint started the one squeeze effect, and you really have to the know differance.
JC

WE are not here to play guessing games on how you achieved this doubling sorry to say that but it's true.

The state of new Jersey is poluted and foggy and you see doubled images when you look at a coin is that the answer ?

 

That would be my guess.

The OP has already said there is no intentional trickery here. He could see this with his own eyes so I would have to lean towards something more along the lines of what Foundinrolls suggested.

 

Now that I see it as mentioned and the op said he 'thought he found a once in a lifetime find' I'm going with what foundinrolls said.

 

Foundinrolls wins it! Very good deduction. Whatever material was used to cover this set of coins(mylar perhaps?) seems to have been heat shrunk over the holder, and this caused an absolutely perfect imprint of the coin on the covering material. I guess over time it shifted just enough to cause this appearance. Even under 30x magnification it looked like this was the coin itself that was doubled.

Just Coins-My primary purpose in presenting this was to alert people to this fact so that others wouldn't come across one of these and think they had cherrypicked a gold mine. I presented it this way, because I thought some might enjoy trying to figure it out. It was not to annoy you with "guessing games." Hopefully some here enoyed this little round of "what is it?"

 

jallengomez, I don't know why he would make a comment like that, he's presented several of them (guessing games) himself.

 

Too bad I got to this thread so late as the answer was already given. I was thinking glue at first.

It seems many a collector have been stumped by various substances having been applied to the coin's surface or in this case, adhered, to the surface producing effects that mimic varieties or errors. Never hurts to show examples and have the riddle solved. Thanks for sharing.

 

Wanted to share one final photo. This is the plastic(mylar?) cover.

 

That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!