Hey everyone, been a couple of weeks but I have been busy looking at wheaties. Ok here’s one that I need some help on. Is it a true 1969s DDO or a strike doubling? My luck it’s a strike doubling but what’s everyone else’s opinion?. This is the best pic I could get. Thanks, Don
I would have to say strike doubling. I checked coppercoins.com and dosen't seem to match anything there... Do you see any other doubling such as in Liberty or IGWT?
I would say MD. The mint mark is also doubled it is hand punched so unless it is a RPM and a DDO it would have to be MD. Fell free to correct me if I'm wrong I'm still new.
The mintmark on the 1969-S DDO is NOT doubled since it was hand punched. So your coin is not the DDO.
Poormans's 69s DDO Well unfortunately there’s no doubling in liberty or igwt BUT a true 55 DDO sells for over $1000.00 and a poorman’s 55 sell’s for about $10.00 (1/100th) so I figure a true 69s DDO sells for at least $60,000 so a poormans 69s should be worth 1/100th so about $600.00. Jan 2007, heritage auction sold one for $126,500.00 so 1/100th should be good for at least $1,200 on ebay. (A poorman’s 69s) starting a hold new variety) LMAO!
Every month or two someone thinks they hit the lottery and places a machine doubled '69S on eBay calling it a DDO (or another erroneous term like double dye) and starts the bidding at some conservative price of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars - LOL!
Actually the 69s Correct me If I'm wrong but Ken Potter has a new article out that say's the MM can be :smile doubled??
If you are talking about the non-ddo version, you are correct there are S/S varieties. But I have not seen the article concerning a 1969-S/S DDO. I believe only one obverse die was used and it was a single mm. Jim
It can be mechanically doubled as well as the date. It can be mechanically doubled as well as the date. The one found in Mich. a year or so back was a version of the true doubled die DDO-001 with mechanical doubling. Many true doubled dies can and do have associated with is some kine of other form of mechanical/machine doubling but a doubled die like this (DDO-001) one can be seen at arms length. 1969-S is a notorious year for mechanical/machine doubling I have rolls of them, in fact I would guess I have looked at as many as 5000 BU (and circ.) examples with all kinds of mechanical doubling on them - to me they are worthless. I will not (any longer) even sell them because some fool will put them on Ebay and call them everything from a doubled die or poormans doubled die to the "shot fired from the grassy noll"! I have started just throwing them in the trash to prevent that very thing. Your coin is not a die variety, not a doubled die not even a re-punched mintmark that I can see, move on to the next one.
There were actually 3 of them found here in Michigan around the same time. Mikes sold on Heritage for $126k. The other two are floating around in space. :whistle:
