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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1730915, member: 44079&quot;]OMG, Frank Spadone?!?&nbsp;&nbsp; LoL!&nbsp;&nbsp; Now there is a name I literally haven&#039;t seen written or heard in decades and decades.&nbsp; </p><p>Actually I do have 1 or 2 recent vintage books.&nbsp; Let me say the 2013 Redbook is of minimal help when it comes to error coins.&nbsp; Yes, sure pics of some extreme examples, but little guidance in identifying errors, or error classifications.&nbsp; Likewise, no value is shown for many, many known error coins, or if they do show a value (as far as pennies go) it is only for MS or PF state pennies.&nbsp; Many, many of the penny coins I handle are G4 - EF, so discussion of unseen MS or PF is of only value to set a &#039;not more than&#039; price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, agreed that Page 121 of the 2013 Redbook refers to the 1955 as a &#039;popular double-DIE&#039; error.&nbsp; To me, this is a new term.&nbsp; I called it what the ad &#039;do you have this coin in your pocket?&#039; inside the 1960s comic books called it.&nbsp; A 1955 Double Strike.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So okay, I shouldn&#039;t use the old term anymore.&nbsp; Point made.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That terminology issue being settled, we return to my point.&nbsp; I am and will probably remain unable to discern (without a much greater than 5x magnification) in worn business class coins the difference in the case of wider letters or filled in mintmarks between a doubled die coin and a coin damaged and worn in use unless it is something really extreme like the 1955 double die coin pictured.</p><p><br /></p><p>What are the implications from this?&nbsp; A) I am probably not alone.&nbsp; Knowing something exists is of little value if you can&#039;t discern it.</p><p>B) I am losing money because I handle and pass by wide lettered and filled in mint mark coins by the scores every week.&nbsp; C) If you have one, it may&nbsp; be worth more tomorrow because I will be throwing a few pounds of them into Coinstar today and while some may enter circulation again, some probably won&#039;t.&nbsp; </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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