Jean Kay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have found a 1936 Double Die !!! Follow this link after you calm down !!: http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/dietype.php?date=1936&die_mint=p&die_type=do&page=0 Huge congrats and a hug too !!
I wasn't expecting those responses! Would you believe it if I told you this came from a lot of 500 pre-1940 coins I won on ebay? Thanks everyone! Yipppeeeeee! Now I am having fun!!!! What can I do about keeping the verdigris from getting worse? jeankay
Nothing. Its not that bad, maybe separate it from other coins. Check with others for possible solutions for the verdigris, however DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CLEAN IT NOW or anytime soon. Nice find!!!
Jeankay, Nice find! You can place the coin in some acetone then lightly go over the areas where the verdrgris is located with a wooden toothpick. This should remove much if not all of the verdigris and unless you really bare down on the coin with the toothpick, it should not harm it in any way. You can also use the thorn of a Rose still attached to a piece of stem, to work out the verdigris from the hard to get to areas. Frank
JeanKay: Very nice! I have been searchng for one for quite a while. (nope, never found one.) Congrats!
That 1936 p Lincoln Hi everybody, The great and helpful responses from you prompted me to take this another step forward with these cruddy coins. Since finding the aforementioned 1936P-1DO-001 (we think) I have found four more coins that may be from similar dies. The four 36p's have a normal look to the letters and date but have the leg of the R in Liberty broken just below the 'knee'. The fifth cent has a bold Liberty and date on which I cannot detect doubling as they are worn quite a lot, and it has normal R. Just wanted to update the search which has finished off all the 36p coins I can find just waiting for my attention. Thanks everyone! jeankay
Jean Kay, Heres what I have found: 1936-P LC.DDO#002 Coneca 2-0-V FS #1-015 Breen #2135 Rarity scale 6 Triple die obverse. " This die was hubbed from a working die which was missing the left leg of the letter R of Liberty. " Tougher to find than it's counterpart, DDO-001 The half break at the " R " in Liberty gives it away. I had a chance to get the books out today, and this is straight from my Wexler/Flynn " The Authoritave Referance on Lincoln Cents" I'll send you pics via email because the book is copyrighted.
Hey, congrats! That's a tough variety, looks like you hit it pretty nice! VEry nice job, keep searching!!! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Phoenix
Nice find jeankay , what power loop do you use . Stainless gave me a 10x I haven't got it yet . I s that strong enough to find these varieties with , or should I get a stronger one . rzage
a 10 X will definitely be strong enough, I use 10 and 15. Great find Jeankay also.. man stainless is just giving stuff away!
For the cursory search I use a large lensed 10X, about 40mm across.. it isn't clear all the way to the edges so sometimes I think I have found a real oddity. This magnifier makes it possible to view an entire coin all at one time. For closer work I use a 15x. These two magnifiers are bulky and won't fit in most pockets. I got these in a large set of magnifiers on ebay. For very fine search close-ups I use a 10X loupe with a better quality magnification. Thanks for checking this out... it was quite an exciting evening for me last night. Nearly wore me out. Oh, since last night Arizona Jack found the proper references for the 36p... being a 1936-P LC DDO#002.. and it is not the 001 I had tried to attribute to it. jeankay
Hey Mr. Arizona! Thanks for the information. I do not have that book yet, but I did pick up "A quick reference to the top Lincoln cent Die Varieties" by Gary Wagnon, Karen Peterson, and Kevin Flynn... it has the exact coin on page 26. And, it says it is more difficult to find than the DDO-001... I can hardly believe that one... They give it a Class IV & VIII+V, Offset & Tilt+ Pivot Doubling. Supposedly showing minor doubling on RUST of Trust... Overall Rarity of URS. Wow! Now coin-collecting is getting to be FUN. Who would've known? jeankay
Now Jack, please correct me if I am wrong! If I remember correctly, the Working Die with the missing left leg of the "R" was used to make several Dies which resulted in the Doubled Die Dies #1 and #2 and normal (non-Doubled Die) Dies that also had the missing left leg of the "R". Therefore, when folks see the missing left leg of the "R" on a 1936-P Lincoln Cent, they automatically assume that it is a Doubled Die which is not always the case. Frank
It does not say so in the Wexler book Frank. I'll hunt it down again this weekend, as Im off to work right now.
