Hi Im a Canadian but made a decision a couple years back to put my Canadian collection of hiatus, and start collecting circulated Lincoln Cents, all mint marks. After a year of that I changed this collection and have upgraded them to BU Red examples, all in airtites. Instead of tossing the Brwn cents into circulation I kept them all, and last month I bought The Cherry Pickers Guide from Amazon and thought it would be fun to go through them all and see what i got. I must have went through, approx 300 circulated brwns thus far, and would you believe I only found I cent that had any doubling, that was listed in the guide. Minimal value. I have 2 questions. 1. The fact I basically found none, does this really represent reality? For the most part, are these doubled cents really rare? 2. I only louped the cents that had a listing in the guide. Is there a chance there are others out there that never made the guide. 3. The book was published in 2009, and it only goes up to coins to 2000. Is that to suggest that there are no more doubled coins out there past this date? BTW, I got all the mint marks in BU RED from 1934-2009, and some sporadic 1909's-1919's, in which I still have to go through and check out as well.
Hi Dollar 1948. It seems to me you've done very well for yourself on Lincoln cents. BU's from '34' and on is very good. Now about doubled dies. You say you've searched only 300 until you found one? That's an outstanding low number. I've searched at least 100 $25 boxes(bricks) without finding one. But I say that anything you can't see with a 5X mike is a minor DD. Also I don't have a 'Cherry Picker's Guide' because I do not like the way it is presented, written, editted, whatever. Turns me off as well as I also don't understand it. I stick with the 'Red Book' and the 'Black Book' and also a book for IHC's and a book for Wheaties. You keep on searching. With your luck you will find a cent doubled die'd that's not listed. AND they are out there.
If I recall correctly the Cherrypickers' Guide sticks to the varieties that can reasonably be seen. In other words NOT all varieties are covered. See my answer to question 1. Not at all. Just takes time to find them. That, and the lead time to publish a book results in the date gap that you noticed. The famous Red Book has prices that are 1-1½ years out of date for the same reason, lead time.
Well as mentioned I have been searching for years. The closest I come to finding one is the 2009 extra finger. I will admit I don't search for every variety out there, but mainly for the ones I know about. Keep searching you never know. It also sounds like you have a nice collection Lincolns - congrats.
Dollar1948, the coppercoins.com website will open a whole new world of doubled Lincoln cents without an attitude. Click where it says "die variety search".
For one thing you should try www.coppercoins.com. Also, the person from that web site has two books out on just Lincoln Cents. If you get that book you would find many, many years there are Double Dies, varieties, RPM's, etc. Even in the Numismatic News magazine dated Feb. 26, 2008 there is an article by that same person from coppercoins named Charles Daughtrey about a 1982 Double Die on the reverse. Note too there are piles of those silly large and small cents. You already may well have missed some really valuable coins. The problem with any coins value is it's popularity. For example the 1955 Lincoln Cent Double Die is so valuable due to popularity. Not many people find the others since they are not popularized so no one even knows they exist.
