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It took me a while to find one scrounging around my files, but here is a 1997 showing what I tried to describe earlier. Kind of a double-looking ear. Not sure this helps solve the OPs coin, but wanted to show what I was talking about.  |
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Time to ask Mike I guess. I am leaning towards not a doubled ear. John1  |
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I'm definitely looking forward to Wexler's response! This would be an amazing discovery if genuine!  |
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Tropicalbats, interesting find. Don't know what to make of it. Seeing that one makes me understand the doubt but I don't think it's fair to completely dismiss it as nothing special yet.
Isn't Mike Diamond on this forum occasionally? Can anyone contact him to see his opinion, or point me to his contact info?
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I really can't decide one way or another. I'd have to view it under a microscope. The doubling is really quite subtle, regardless of cause.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Not a doubled die. The distance from point A to point B is the same on both ears. (the dot on the right ear for A is slightly off to the left.). Pick any two points along the lower ear and the results are the same. Sorry.  |
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Tropicalbats, I think you are right. Just did an overlay comparison myself with an image of a 1995 cent I took, so lighting is the same. I drew a line across the straight edge of the normal ear. Turns out the doubling has not increased the size of the ear, it just looks like it did (Sorry for not believing your comparison showing the size has not increased Coop, but it doesn't have the characteristics of MD so I was a little too quick to dismiss it). My coin might have the same anomaly as yours. Not MD, but also not likely a DDO?   |
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DrDon, you're right. That comparison was hastily made and inaccurate. I deleted it from my post. I was in the process of uploading an accurate comparison when you just posted that. I now agree that this is likely not a DDO. I didn't believe it is MD, and I still don't, that was why I was so quick to dismiss Coop's posts. But Coop was right in that the doubling did not increase the size of the ear. However, the doubling is rounded and raised and creates an incomplete image of the ear, unlike MD. It is very similar to tropicalbats' image. I think there is some other explanation other than MD or DDO. I was wrong and shouldn't have dismissed differing opinions so quickly. |
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Tanman2001:
Ear MD seems to be tricky.
An overlay is a good tool for confirming doubled dies on the ear. I am not very go at them so I used a tool I am more familiar with, calipers. It helped that you posted the side-by-side photo.
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A good learning experience for all of us!  |
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I dismissed it from damage as it followed the line on the ear, and chance are it was the machine that could do it that accurately. The bounce of MD doesn't always bounce/hop or slide exactly the same. Even from strike to strike on the the same die pairs:  Note they are all from the same dies and each strike is slightly different. There were actually many more examples from the OBW rolls I had. But others were the same as the examples above. But they were not creating the same doubling each time. (Sloppy machine) |
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Mailing this one off to Wexler tomorrow, will keep you updated. Still interested to see what he thinks caused this.
Nevermind, wasn't aware of Wexler's situation.
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05/05/2019 9:47 pm
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Tanman2001, don't mail it. He's too sick to do attributions right now. I've sent a package to him back in late December, and I've never got it back. I had to unfortunately file a complaint to PayPal to get my money back (which I did).
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