Bottom line is that a 10 year old has better eyes than his old man. His job is to look out for Lincolns. You know some of the dates...1972 DDO, 1995DDO, 1998 and 2000 "Wide AM" and to date, he really hasn't found anything, except when he showed me a 1972 found in loose change. Holy Smoke! It looked like the real thing! I thought it was real, so I sent it off to PCGS and it finally came back certified as a 1972 DDO AU55 find! How about that! Told him he could do whatever he wants with his coin. He stared at it for awhile, but he really has his eye on one of those motorized scooters. So after discussion, we are listing it on ebay to see what happens. Every 10 minutes he will ask me, "Any bids?", so he is learning patience too! The good thing about this is he is seraching everything...asking everybody to look at their loose change. Hopefully he will fall in line with the next generation of collectors. This is how I got started after finding a 1931-S back in 1971! (my grandmother's mason jar). We all start somewhere don't we?
Congrats on your son's find. I'm jealous! Hope he continues to keep interest in this great hobby Geod
Congrats on the YN's find Ed But if you really wanna put a sparkle in his eye - take the boy to a coin show I have a son who is 12 - took him to his first show when he was your boy's age. Sure it cost me a few bucks - but I'll tell ya what - that is a memory I'll carry to the grave
The coin sold on Sunday night (ebay) for $265...not bad for loose change. My son is happy and I think he is hooked on collecting coins. What a profit deal! More so, what a country!
nice one indded for the rest of hs life now he will look through his small change. and probably never find such a valuable coin again too but i guess dad can give him a whitman folder and get him filling it
About 75,000 Double Die Obverses were released before the error was discovered. Not since 1955 has a double die cent been as pronounced as what you see with "In God We Trust" and the word "Liberty" and to some degree in the date 1972. In 1995, you see some doubling in the word Liberty, but nothing like 1955 and 1972. Compared to the billions that are made every year, you have a very small population of these coins available, hence why they are rare.
