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1945 Wheat Cent DDO-001 Extra Thicc

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 Posted 01/20/2021  09:59 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Yorkish to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Good morning,

Found this on another scan through my Wheatie stash. It appears to me to match the VarietyVista reference material for the 1945 DDO-001, but the only die marker (I think that is the right word) was a die scratch above the 1 and has worn off. Does anybody have any other way to confirm this? See attached pics and SS of VV's listing for reference.








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 Posted 01/20/2021  10:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add That Coin Dude to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't think so.
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Doesn't look like it to me. The tail of the 9 should be thicker relative to the rest of the number.
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 Posted 01/20/2021  11:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Yorkish to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is thicker than normal (I have a large pile of 1945 cents for comparison) but there is some clear damage to the right bottom side of the tail, which appears to have taken some of the material with it.

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 Posted 01/20/2021  11:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not a DDO. Looks like circulation flattening.
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Just my Two Cents...if I found this, in this condition, I would think it was simply circulation wear and the devices, as is typical with a coin in this condition, had been mushed.


Compare,, for example, the shapes of the voids inside the letters B and R of LIBERTY. On the DDO from VV, you see crisply shaped voids. The B and R on your coin have obviously been mushed over at some point and deformed.

The letters L and T in LIBERTY on your coin obviously have taken a hit on your coin as well - making areas on them look wider.
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 Posted 01/20/2021  11:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverStackerKid to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I see what you're seeing, it's hard for me to personally tell if it is just circulation flattening as was my first impression of the coin, might be a DDO but it's not the one you compared it to. Definitely an element of circulation flattening though
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Note the 'WE' is not the same. Also the '4' is not showing the same hub doubling. The maybe a DDO, but not that die number.
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 Posted 01/20/2021  6:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Yorkish to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the input everyone, I'm still training my eyes so all of it is helpful.
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