I was looking at some of my coins that I got from the bank and I found these a 1999 nickel and a 1995 quarter can you tell me what are these, DD or MD.. As you could see the 1999 and the P and in the words In God we trust. I have found others coins similar to these that i will post once I take some good pictures of them. Any feed back will be helpfull. Thanks
That's die deterioration doubling from a servere worn die the 99 nickels are notorious for that in fact there was a write up in one of the coin magazines how bad these 99 nickles suffer from a worn die ,and some are so bad that some have been mistaking for a doubled die.You also can see the die is worn by the Motto there is an orange peel effect on that area on the fields Frankie boy
The reaon I'm sure it's DDD because the images on the date, and as well as the other devices is raised ,and distorted it doesn't appear to have a shelf like image on any of them and the MM is surely DDD. The orange peel effect is a dead give away for DDD on the fields.It don't matter anyway the coin is not a DDO at least we could establish that for the OP. Thanks Frankie Boy encil:
Frankie Boy knows wat he's tawkin' about Thanks Bill, PS: I was bawn an raised in Brooklyn so I can get away wit mincin' engalish now an den No offense intended , i'm just palying. In any case...Cointime has added some excellent responses to several threads! Thanks,
Please look at the Mm if you notice the image is raised on the mm which indicates that it is not Md it's a form of DDD ,and DDD doe's have doubling on both sides of the coin there are many examples were it is on one side to, but to distinguish MD from DDD , ddd is raised with distorted images ,and Md is not raised and doe's not have second distorted images it has shelf like images. Here are two examples of DDD one coin ,one side is effecting the letters and the other coin both sides are effecting the letters.The more the die wears the likely the both sides of the letters are effect when the die is in it's beginning stage of wear one side will probably be effected. Thank you again Frankie Boy.
No it has been stated by many of us that the Mm is DDD, but what differance does it make the coin is not a doubled die and we did establish that which is the main concern. Frankie Boy form Brooklyn Ny baby
I agree whatever it is whether it's MD or DDD it's still 'damage' however I only counted 1 of 'the many of us' here that states it's DDD and it was you. The Mintmark still looks like Md.
Not doubled dies, It will help you greatly to read the section in Cherry Pickers Guild (and in other sites, NCADD, Ken Potters web, etc.) regarding learning true doubled dies verses other forms of doubling. You also can search CoinTalk for same.
