I am NOT a variety guy. While looking for Washingtons for my Washington toner Danscos, I found this 1944 Washington. If you look at the eagle's left armpit (right side of reverse) you will see a raised feature trending from 7 o'clock to 1 o'clock. As far as I can figure out, it is not the result of a clash. I checked my Cherrypickers Guide (4th edition), and didn't find anything. Clearly the die had to have had a gouge in it to create this feature. Is this considered a variety or some sort of damage? Is this something worthwhile to send into Coneca? Thank you! The images are by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job.
A huge die gouge and this is most probably a ddo and ddr coin http://varietyvista.com/09a WQ Vol 1/index.htm
Why would this be the case? I’m only familiar with the 56 Proof Rev die gouge. I’d found quite a few years back before the flood gates opened. They were going for $1,500 in Cam.
Sky I personally would have it attributed to make sure...there's a lot of doubled dies both ddo's as well ddr's now as a variety collector thats a turn off... but I do believe that you have something worth looking into. Worst case scenario-$50. Best cast a new find and on the cover of error scope magazine. I am not a quarter collector, well seated yes ...Washington no...but yeah I dig deep on this one.
People ATS are saying it's a clash from George's queue. Seeing their overlays it certainly seems possible. I only assumed a clash would come from the outer part of George's queue, as that has a sharp delineation. It's interesting to see that in this case it appears to be part of the queue adjoining the neck. I am surprised, given all the Washingtons over all the years that I've looked at them, that this is the first time I've seen this.
I just went on Ebay looked at a few and cropped. IIRC the coin was an NGC 67 I found quite a few that matched, but stopped looking as the reverses upside down makes me sick.
