Posted 10/12/2016 05:33 am
It actually makes sense. The US cent is by far the most produced coin in the world, with literally billions of them being minted each year. As there is always a small chance for 'misprints', like double dies, die cracks, greased dies, etc, the chance of having those errors becomes '1' (or 100%) when you have large numbers like for the US cent.
As making cents is already a loss-making activity, I can imagine that quality control isn't the highest priority either so that the chance of these errors making it into circulation also is significantly higher than for, for example, silver eagles or so.
I guess there's no real overview yet of which years produced more DD's than others (at least it's now known to me), as there are too many cents and too little interest in them. For what I know, the only way of finding DD's is looking at many coins.
As making cents is already a loss-making activity, I can imagine that quality control isn't the highest priority either so that the chance of these errors making it into circulation also is significantly higher than for, for example, silver eagles or so.
I guess there's no real overview yet of which years produced more DD's than others (at least it's now known to me), as there are too many cents and too little interest in them. For what I know, the only way of finding DD's is looking at many coins.
