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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 6256157, member: 105098&quot;]As far as the 1974 cent goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>You tell me, which obverse and reverse die pair would that coin be made with?</p><p><a href="http://www.varietyvista.com/01b%20LC%20Doubled%20Dies%20Vol%202/Obverse%20Design%20Varieties.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.varietyvista.com/01b%20LC%20Doubled%20Dies%20Vol%202/Obverse%20Design%20Varieties.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.varietyvista.com/01b LC Doubled Dies Vol 2/Obverse Design Varieties.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://varietyvista.com/01b%20LC%20Doubled%20Dies%20Vol%202/Memorial%20Reverse%20Design%20Varieties.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://varietyvista.com/01b%20LC%20Doubled%20Dies%20Vol%202/Memorial%20Reverse%20Design%20Varieties.htm" rel="nofollow">http://varietyvista.com/01b LC Doubled Dies Vol 2/Memorial Reverse Design Varieties.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>if you are going to say it&#039;s ODV-030, and RDV-004 OK yeah, that&#039;s the right dies for the authentic pieces. but notice your FG to the right of the memorial? it&#039;s not even close to right. The Obverse is missing the VDB at the base of the shoulder also. the fine details is what&#039;s always missing on the copies.</p><p>Aluminum is so soft it struck up well, every example that has turned up looks amazing errors were not kept by the mint if they did occur, at the time they struck maybe 36 of them trying to market it to congress as a viable option to copper, they got all but less than a dozen back. They didn&#039;t make errors with them, they wanted them looking as best as possible trying to get the composition change through.</p><p><br /></p><p>this is the one from the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History (Smithsonian). they ALL look exactly like this because they were pattern test pieces. there is no &quot;broad struck&quot; or &quot;struck through grease&quot; or even &quot;weak strike&quot;.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247616[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Yours looks nothing like the museum example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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