Nickel planchets will not fit. There's your proof. Try and put a nickel into a plastic tube made for Cents. Same concept.
This is what you have: http://koinpro.tripod.com/Articles/SilverPennies.htm
Connie, I'm not seeing any signs of a doubled die. Where are you seeing the doubling?
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It's called machine doubling. It's common and unless extreme, carries no premium.
Are you talking about the doubled ear from the doubled dies? No, only a small percentage of the coins from those years will be the variety.
What you're seeing there is MD.
In 1943 the master dies were all produced in Philadelphia, and those master dies went on to produce all the working dies. The mint marks were...
It spent some time in the ground or exposed to other environmental damage. It's not a missing clad layer error.
Dealers and sellers have been slabbing coins(with grades I might add) since the first cardboard holder came about. Plastic/cardboard flip. No...
It's badly damaged.
It's definitely damaged. Not a mint error.
Nice bag Maggie! I wish I had them to sort through. I'd say that most of them look red.
Thanks for sharing!
Another fail. This will be my last post on any of your threads, and I would advise others to also ignore the troll.
The O is mechanical doubling. As Rascal pointed out, the rest is just damage.
There's a die chip in the 5. Common for wheats from the '50s.
Md.
All variety specialist now believe the 1958 overdates to be nothing more than die gouges. 1958 probably suffered the most die gouges that I have...
The Philly coins in 1970 were large date. As for proof dies, they are only used for proofs. Sometimes a proof die will get mixed in with the...
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