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| 1944 D Penny Error Obverse And Reverse
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Bumpkin
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 Posted 04/29/2023 3:45 pm
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| Without a doubt, as others have mentioned, the coin has been damaged in many ways. However, one thing that hasn't been mentioned, are the very noticeable additional curved lines behind Lincoln's portrait. I believe these are a result of a specific form of die deterioration known as "Design Berms". Other than that, which is considered a "die event" that did occur at the mint during the strike of this coin, I personally do not see any other mint errors on this coin. |
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| 1969 S Lincoln Memorial Cent.
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Bumpkin
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Posted 04/29/2023 3:27 pm
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Like others have said, this is a normal 1969 S Lincoln Cent. There have been links supplied in this post which I would strongly suggest you take heed of, respectfully. There's a plethora of information on the web (meaning good and reliable coin and numismatic websites) that are all at your fingertips. Education and self research is a powerful and very necessary requirement to gain the knowledge needed in this great hobby my friend. Good luck in your hunt!! & |
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| 1970 Quarter Joint Letters
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Bumpkin
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Posted 04/29/2023 3:19 pm
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I'm not 100% sure what you are talking about.
Hey Spence. I think he's referring the the top of the I and T in UNITED. They look to be one piece with no separation. At least that's what I'm assuming his question is relating to. However, yes........ questions poised need to be as specific as possible. Last time I tried, I still cannot read minds....  |
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| 1970 Quarter Joint Letters
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Bumpkin
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Posted 04/29/2023 3:16 pm
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| I'd have to say that 53 years out in circulation, by the looks of this Quarter, it has had a rough life. The reverse letter "fusing" appear to be the result of that area taking a hit which smashed the devices/metal together. Add in half a century later (or whenever the damage occurred) and the circulation wear smoothed down the metal where the hit occurred on the reverse letters. |
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| 2022 Quarter - Doubling Error
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Bumpkin
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Posted 04/29/2023 2:12 pm
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| Looks a bit more like a slight double tap to me (MD). Notice the bottom of the post and the outside of the loop on the mint mark. The 2 also looks like it has lost its normal fullness and looks a bit shelf like IMO. Just my 2 pennies worth here. :) |
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| 1951-D Washington Quarter I Believe WDDO-002 With Unlisted RPM
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Bumpkin
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Posted 10/04/2022 1:47 pm
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I'm going to revive this older thread due to personally knowing GSP and him just now bringing this one to my attention. To my aging eyes, that is without a doubt an RPM. This coin's reverse appears to obviously have been struck by a later stage die. As a result, the reverse devices in the pictures are wider and/or flatter which can be 100% typical of a worn die. However, to my knowledge, without any form of strike doubling apparent on the reverse devices that I can see from the pictures, I have never seen die deterioration create such obvious and very defined splits on the serifs of a mint mark. The extra "wideness" of the mint mark I believe also follows suit, and is consistent, with the results of a heavily used die as shown by the other devices.
While I am not a Quarter collector, hand punched mint marks are hand punched mint marks regardless of which denomination coinage they are on. Without researching this particular RPM, and if it in fact has not been attributed elsewhere, I would definitely give it a total green light as an possible new listing. Very nice find GSP!!! Possibly a new discovery? As I said, I'm not sure because I'm not into Quarters that much at all. If you cannot find a match anywhere, I would definitely pursue it if it were mine. Just my thoughts here folks. Thanks. & |
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| 1972-D Ghost T And DDO On 9.
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Bumpkin
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Posted 10/04/2022 02:53 am
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| Displaced metal left of the horizontal bar of the T with what appears to be a scratch that looks like a post of the T that you pointed out. The 9 took some kind of funky hit. PMD all the way around on the obverse IMHO. |
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| 1960 D1c DDO-008 Lincoln Memorial Cent?
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Bumpkin
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Posted 10/04/2022 02:42 am
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Hello Silvio's, long time no talk, hope you are well.
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It is hard to say if is 008.
According to Wexler's attribution, as I mentioned directly above your comment, this cannot be DDO-008 due to Wexler's example clearly stating his doubled die is a Small Date. The author's coin is a Large Date. |
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| 1960 D1c DDO-008 Lincoln Memorial Cent?
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Bumpkin
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Posted 10/04/2022 02:29 am
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| Let's keep in mind that Wexler's site lists DDO-008 as a Small Date. The author's coin appears to be a large date. It's a shame that Doubleddie. com does not also show the mint mark position for this supposed variety. I too am of the opinion that the site's listing appears to be more a form of a specific type of strike doubling than that of a doubled die. |
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| 2018-P ATB Michigan "Pictured Rocks" Reverse Error From Ejection?
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Bumpkin
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Posted 02/10/2022 1:16 pm
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| Thank you all for your kind comments and replies. I truly appreciate it! I simply urge everyone to thoroughly examine all of their coins, in great detail, to avoid throwing something like this away which ultimately turned out to be a definite keeper. Had I not seen this one as up-close and as clear as I did, I would have probably dismissed it as PMD. And just for the record, this is not my coin. A very good friend asked me to look at it for her and thankfully so. Thanks again everyone. |
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| 2018-P ATB Michigan "Pictured Rocks" Reverse Error From Ejection?
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Bumpkin
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Posted 02/09/2022 9:47 pm
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Dearborn, SHHHH!!!! Good grief man.... I was trying to keep that a secret but you just blew my cover!! Now everyone can create this same thing.... hahaha.
Thanks for the welcome back my friend, I appreciate that. This was no doubt a different kind of error that anyone would have simply taken one look at and probably culled it.
It is actually a friend's coin that asked me about it. Several others had passed it off as PMD as well. After I got to looking at it, I was pretty convinced it was not PMD.
I can't thank Mike Diamond enough for chiming in and confirming my suspicions for me.
I hope you and my other friends and acquaintances here are doing well. I'm hanging in there best I can these days. Thanks for your comment! |
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| 2018-P ATB Michigan "Pictured Rocks" Reverse Error From Ejection?
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Bumpkin
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Posted 02/09/2022 6:12 pm
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| Hello Mike Diamond. Thank you very much for your explanation on this coin sir. You have put my mind at rest with your explanation here. I simply could not let this one go as being just another damaged circulated coin and something that occurred after it left the striking chamber or the mint facility itself. There is just too much evidence here to dictate otherwise. It is my belief as well that anything occurring inside of the striking chamber, regardless of the exact timing of when it happened inside of the chamber and before the coin leaves the chamber, is a true mint error. Thank you for your input, it is much appreciated! |
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| 2018-P ATB Michigan "Pictured Rocks" Reverse Error From Ejection?
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Bumpkin
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Posted 02/09/2022 1:51 pm
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Thank you for replying coop. I do not believe this to be a striking issue. I believe this is an ejection issue as I described in my opening comments. If one was to only look at my pictures sure, it looks like a damaged coin.... PMD. I am not ready to write this one off as PMD to be totally honest and upfront. More importantly, I mean NO disrespect whatsoever in saying that. There has to be an explanation as to how this occurred, in my opinion, immediately during, after or very close thereabouts at the time of ejection of this coin from the striking chamber.
Two observations here please. For simplification sake, I am going to call the detached, yet still attached, piece of metal a "wire". Let's please look at the wire and observe its location in relation to the valleys on the rim. This piece of wire is before (or after depending from which direction you are looking) the indents on top of the rim. The wire is simply not in the way, and was never in the way, of where the indentations are atop the rim. This should rule out, "The peel away of the cladding was caused by the damage".
The indents into the rim of the coin are the exact same, dimensionally and proportionally speaking, to the wideness of each individual and adjacent letters of PICTU. We can also see that the very small gutter/crevice separating PICTU from the rim of the coin is not damaged in the very least at all. Had pressure been applied downward motion, in which to create the indents on the rim, it would have most assuredly had closed together this small separating groove.
Secondly, there is not any apparent material buildup from where material was displaced from the indents atop the rim. If this was PMD, and and a foreign object displaced metal here, we would see extra material displaced somewhere but we don't.
This is not an easy one but yet an easy one to write off as PMD.. There are certain variables, characteristics and physics involved here that just do not add up to this being a run of the mill PMD coin. I would politely ask for a re-evaluation coop now that you see I am not saying this is a striking error but some type of damage caused immediately after the strike and before being completely removed from the chamber and collar. Thanks. |
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