Have you ever seen this DDO?

I was going to sell this bag of coins for 3 dollars a pound. I took what I wanted out and thought nothing good was left. However, I was reading about DDOs and just happened to look again at this bag, and boom! Found a very cool DDO that you can see with the naked eye, although it's a smaller coin. You can see it in the date and engraver/artist initials at the bottom. I couldn't find a good resource yet for world error coins but I haven't seen this one yet. Have you? I like it because it's obvious and similar to expensive US DDOs that I'll never own.

 

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Neat date!

 

Holy crap! That's an awesome doubled die! There are some very strong doubled dies on foreign coins it seems. Great job!

 

That is a nice example of doubling, but I don't know how scarce it might be. I'm inclined to think that some foreign mints don't have quality control standards as strict as others.

Chris

 

Good job finding this one! Now you know what to look for but the QC guy usually has some kind of vino w/lunch overseas so these will be plentiful.

 

I think finding many of these uncirculated would be difficult. Do error collectors in the US stick mainly with US coins? If errors like this are plentiful among world coins, I'd assume error collectors would be all over this stuff, since it deals precisely with what they are looking for in coins minus the country. Anyways, is something like this considered a variety or error? I'd assume it could be both, since because of an error they made the die this way and a variety because it's significantly different than the regular issue. Thanks

 

Some country's people are just glad to get paid so they can buy food. They could care less if it is doubled, or digested by a camel thrice.

 

It's a die variety.

 

Okay, so it's a variety. But wasn't it also done in error, ie not intentionally? So is it an error too?

 

awesome find! I struggle to find doubling on foreign coins. The best one I found was in someone else's collection unbeknownst to them.

 

Thanks. I looked through most of my coins and only turned up this one and a Bulgarian coin. The latter is from 1954, and both sides look to have doubling in the letters. I think this is common for these issues and from this country. But my Belgium one looks a lot nicer. I'm happy I found it because now I'll be searching more mindfully from now on

 

I trade world coins and I have a few duplicates so I don't thoroughly search all of them, only when I'm about to trade them away. I actually found a DDO and a wrong thickness planchet in some of my Argentinian coins so I will post those in a bit.

 

@Seattlite86, let's definitely see it. You guys, I love foreign doubled dies. I'll post the one that hooked me on them, again. @joecoincollect, that's real nice one, good eye.

 

I just posted them. Cheers.

 

This is the one I found that is regrettably not mine.

 

I have to look away, I'm getting vertigo.

Here's mine, again. This is doubled all over this side...

 

Yep, I have no idea what to make of what kind of error it is, whether it was double struck, or somehow a DDO.