Found in rolls. Just wondering if this is anything? Coin is well circulated but the ear looks to have an extra lobe.
Victor: This is very similar to the #2 1984 ddo that was show in Coin World a couple of years ago. The original DDO has an extreme doubling. The newer one is similar to this one. Consider sending it to Wexler. Good luck.
Well it's just that I have so, so, many weird oddballs found in circulation. Most local dealers are not interested in anything I show them. And so many Kennedys I thought were interesting just turned out to be "machine doubling". So after many negative results now I wouldn't know if I had anything significant!
yeah, what he said! Seriously, I have plenty of "what's this" that a lot of people scoff at. And I guess that many will never be id'd. In the 1970's I showed a bunch of Long Island Dealers a war nickel that I thought was an overdate (1943/2) and they all told me that it wasn't an overdate, since none was listed. Ten years later there were headlines about a 'new discovery'. You guessed it, the 1943/2 war nickel. However, I did manage to get Coin World to highlight a 1909 S Barber Half dollar with an inverted S mintmark a couple of years ago. It is the discovery coin, and now it is listed in Cherrypickers Guide (but those creeps didn't give me credit for it). Also, I have had many unlisted RPM's and RPD's (repunched mintmarks and dates) listed in the Barber series by Flynn. (That time I got credit for them.) So, keep looking, ya never know.
Yup I have a box full of What's This? cents. The question is how could I turn them into what I really want (which is cash toward US old gold)?
Its really nothing, it is likely a small spot exhibiting the effects of mechanical doubling, I've seen thousands of post 1982 cents that look like this. Thanks, Bill
