A High Grade 1917 Doubled Die Obverse Cent

jdiablo30,
Back in those days there were no scanners and no Photoshop. Most images that got published were in Black & White and without the software we have today, some colors got washed out and could not be reproduced effectively in the B&W media. Thus you shot everything in B&W. That was the standard back then. Once scanners and software that could effectively convert color to B&W came along, most of us started using color. I think I was one of the first of the numismatic writers to switch to color at the urging of Dave Harper at Numismatic News who suggested there may be a time they'd want to use it. Now NN does 95% of my articles in color. However, in some ways, many B&W images were sharper.

I've always enjoyed the EDS examples more than the later die states of varieties. Sometimes on class 2 doubled dies, they disappear on the outside edge of outer devices.

Whatsamatter Coop? You don't like the late die state images? To be honest, I think the B&W looked better. I tried colorizing them and used them as such in Numismatic News but I somehow came back around to the B&W.

SsDs,
Even when I take color and convert it to B&W for my ads in the print media, I'm always amazed at how much more you can see.

Both B&W and colorized photos look great! Nice job Coop!

CoinMaster,
Did you find any? I once found one in Good condition where most of the doubling was flat so it put it back in the dealers stock and told him what I did. He took it out and sold it for $25. I felt like a fool!

Also, I knew a dealer that took very worn regular 1917 cents and sold them as the doubled die. He said he never got a return! Sad!

The fist dealer you mentioned was a lot smarter than the second.The bag I got was one pound, there was only one 1917 in it. It wasn't a DD, but if it were that easy, it wouldn't be as good. I did get the 47-S and the 56 I recently posted though. I also picked a 1941 that I'm going to post shortly; it's not as nice as the other two, but certainy different.