196? Double Stamped Penny

Here is a penny i found yesterday while playing with my kids and their piggy banks the guy at San Diego Coin said it was geniune and that he had never seen anything like it and behold I could find nothing like it online either.

It is a double stamped 196? filled die error

 

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I can't tell from your pics, because they are too blurry, but are the second 9 and 6 raised, or incused, meaning depressed below the coin's surface?

 

both sets of 169 are raised

 

both sets of 169 are raised....sorry 196

 

Nice find. I would check the Cherry Picker's Guide and see if there is anything in there for this.

 

"cherry pickers guide"?

I am not a collector just some guy that found this so I am unfamiliar with what you are talking about could you elaborate?

 

The Cherry Picker's Guide is a standard reference used by many collectors. Has sharp images and great information.

 

I wonder what caused the damage on the rim at 5 oclock, do you have a picture of the reverse as well?

 

Heres a quick pic of the back and side, not sure what caused the damage.

 

Is that an "S" under the lower 1969?

 

Yes

 

I would also point out that the "S" stamp overlaps the lip of the coin where the damage is almost like it was damaged when it was stamped. I dont know for sure because this is the first time I've looked at a penny when not snapping it someone

 

Is there something with the 9 on the bottom, like a letter going through it?

 

Crazy, but yes although I cant say for sure without more magification but yes it almost looks as though there is a "D" there.

 

is that bad?

 

Not bad, D stands for Denver, the S for San Francisco, if it were blank it would be Philadelphia, now you just have to figure out how a coin originally minted in Denver ended up getting minted again in San Francisco.

 

Not to hijack the thread but is the cherry pickers guide better than the red book?

 

Also not say that it is a "D" there in the first place, i have a dinky magnifying glass and the coin is pretty dirty. I will try and double check it when I can to verify the existance of the "D"

 

Those are really 2 completely different books, the red/bluebook have mintages for all us coins, prices (not really worth using though) weights, diameters, content of all us coins

The cherrypickers guide on the other hand, is only for die varieties and errors, the red/bluebook has the major error/varieties, but the cherrypickers guide has many, many, more.

 

Sorry, but no its not. Cherrypickers has nothing to do with errors.