So this is my first grade posting. Hopefully the pictures will be sufficient. Anyway I went to this Swapmeet over the weekend with my fiance. I happened to come across this older guy who looked like he was in his 70's. He had quite a large selection of Coins of all kinds. I was able to get a whole bag full of coins and a mint set for some really decent prices. After I got home I noticed two very possible errors in this mint set. It's a 1943 Lincoln steel cents emergency issue set. This will be the first of two posts as there are two cents I want to have looked at and I don't want to get the two confused. These pictures are of what looks to be a 1943 D over D. What do u guys and gals think?
I don't think it's an RPM. It looks bigger then the MM.. Maybe a byproduct of the replating or die wear?? but i'm pretty sure, not an RPM.
New Orleans did use a 'O'. But since it ended it's production of coins in 1909 and emptyed of it's machinery a couple years later, are you saying that a 'O' the size used on cents some how made it's way to the Denver mint to be used on the steel cent? And, that this is normal?
Hi, All the coins were plated and unfortunately were not part of a "Mint Set" but were placed in an after market holder after the coins were plated. This is also known as reprocessed. This was done to coins after they left the Mint in order to make them saleable after they were worn a bit. The re-plating causes the doubled look on the mintmarks and often on other details. I hope you didn't get charged too much, the coins that are reprocessed are technically damaged and are worth about five cents each. Many times it was done to a coin with rust. The coins are not what they appear to be. They are sometimes sold as uncirculated but of course, they are not. The fact that you think that these are a part of a "Mint Set" indicates that the seller did not have enough information on these before he sold them to you. In fact you can see spots of rust coming through again on the 1943 D piece. My guess is that they were in something similar to this: Note, this one has a copyright date of 1993 on the back of the holder's insert. Yours might have something similar. Thanks, Bill
I think Bill nailed this one. With later cents you see the same effect a lot where it looks as though there are two sets of everything as though the copper and zinc have slid off of one another. It could be this same occurance as well, though I can't for the life of me remember the terminology. Guy~
