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Message:: [QUOTE="scsterry, post: 3728469, member: 103628"]Good evening gentlemen, (and ladies - if any are reading this.)I found this 1958 "D" LWC while going through a few rolls of coins that I got from my bank. As you can plainly see, the "9" and "5" in the date has been "bridged" but what I THINK is the top arc of the number "9". This "bridge is raised, to almost the height of the "normal" numbers in the date. I have only been collecting for only a couple of years, so my knowledge is very limited. (That's why I spend so much time reading on this, and other sites,...trying to learn.) This is a good test for me to see if any of this knowledge is actually sinking thru my thick skull. Please correct me with as much information, evidence or traits of the coin that illustrate or support your opinion. The knowledge is what I'm really after here. A diagnosis and value are secondary. Please excuse my photos. These are the best of the roughly 150 pictures that I took.I THINK, this coin was initially struck, then moved to the RIGHT / EAST, then restruck, resulting in the coin we see here. What gets me is, why don't I see evidence of the initial strike anywhere other than between the "9" and "5" in the date?The only other scenario I can imagine is somehow the top of a "9" broke off this, or some other die and somehow made a perfect indentation into the die between the two numbers, at exactly the same height as the other numbers and all of them in line with one another. (I would love to see the odds on that. (-: )Help me please, before I loose my mind!!! (-: [ATTACH=full]999688[/ATTACH] Closer view of Date and Mint Mark.[ATTACH=full]999693[/ATTACH] Wider shot of Obverse,[ATTACH=full]999698[/ATTACH] and now the Reverse.[ATTACH=full]999699[/ATTACH]I don't see any signs of doubling on the reverse. (Or the Obverse, for that matter.) I want to thank you in advance for any and all knowledge that you may impart on me. It is greatly appreciated.[/QUOTE]

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