1999-P (Lmc) .. Nice Condition For Roll Hunting

Alright. We will just forgot about what happened and move on. Nice find by the way.

Keep in mind the clashes we see on the upper part of the bays. A polishing would remove that part of the false column. Also the bar Hubbing affects the center of the design only usually on this type of doubling.

Coppergold:
In your first photo the blue arrow is pointing to a part of the column that is common to all the columns. Compare it to the column to the left of it. What the white fingers are pointing to is part of the design. Look at column eight to compare.


Die wear or erased through abrasion. I grabbed a random LMC to double check and this same element on my cent only has the upper 1/4 showing.

Just like all devices. The more of the fields go away (the bay is also part of the fields) the thinner the devices become or just go away if the depth is too deep removed on the die.







I could keep doing this all night.

@killians76

I agree that what you have on the far right column is part of the original design. Those "doubled" columns for perspective are very shallow on the die and quite susceptible to die polishing (e.g. to remove a clash, as said).

I believe that the upper and lower parts of that design element were polished away, and what you see is what remained of the original design. I don't believe it is a DDR.

@Coppergold

I sincerely hope you did not dump your finds into circulation. There is a lot to consider, even when examining a coin with something that appears to be easily explained. Personally, I try to leave a true DD as the final decision if no other, more reasonable, explantion is acceptable. In this case, potential die polishing and/or plating defects don't allow me to end up at the DD conclusion. (Essentially Occam's Razor)

I know it's a subject that keeps coming up but wanted to show closely what coppergold and I thought we were seeing and I still kinda see it but you guys are the pros... red color arrows are the collumn in the back and the blue arrows are the ones in question. Looks to come out a little further than the original collumn that's in the back

My point in where I was confused at is that when it is polished it takes the lowest point on the punched coin away a little at a time. If you dont mess with the depth of the design in the die then that part is original when its punched but what I'm seeing had to have been further down in the die to have been raised up higher on the punched coin making it "something extra". Why is it higher than the rest of the back collum (which you can see)if when you buff it it takes away the lowest point?