1955 Lincoln Wheat Cent Doubled Die - DDO-002, FS-102

Thanks! Hunting 1955 BU rolls can be productive, but now those rolls are getting pretty expensive to just poke through a bunch of mostly late die stage coins. But if you end up with enough of such rolls, there are a number of common and rare things to find so usually something comes out of them. Loads of BIE coins, some Cuds, doubled dies are fairly common along with errors like tapered planchets or clipped planchets. And there there are the three possible big finds, die 1, die 2 or the shattered die. Nice when one of those hits, although pretty doubtful there are any die 1 coins left in any BU rolls.

As for camera gear it's pretty simple. I use a Canon S95 point and shoot for the full coin pics, just setting the coin on a post it note with a light above and behind it. The close up shots are done with an AmScope trinocular scope, but I don't like to fuss with the onboard camera and usually just snap a pic through the optics with my iphone. Rotation, cropping and image resizing are done in Photoshop.

TB, You are way, way too modest. I study everyone of your posts...... Your images are, by far, the best on the site! Your your coins are always OUTSTANDING! You've taught me many of the FINER points of common and rare coin collecting. Take away - what is valuable to you is valuable to me. Thank you.

Thanks! Just trying to show some real errors and varieties (as well as a few counterfeits) to be helpful. Glad it is working!

What! How about sharing you source for BU 1955's. A roll of those it seems would far surpass the value of "the big one.
You must gonna grade this one, no?

to the Community, Mauriv!

Ah, light! It is everything isn't it. Well the bulb I just love for the full coin shots is incandescent, and we all know those are on the way out. Last time I checked I could not find one anywhere, so very shortly I will once again start searching for a bulb that gets Lincoln cents right. I have one of those adjustable LED bulbs where you can vary the temperature, but unsure if that will be an answer or not. But can't currently help with that end of things as my current set up is now obsolete.

For the scope lighting I just use a BHD-12V-15W projector bulb. My scope light can be tilted and dimmed, which does much of what is needed, but when I need a filter I usually just curtain a white napkin or paper towel in front of the light. The very best pics I've seen come if I wrap the whole thing in a great gob of tissue paper, but am too afraid the whole thing will catch on fire to do that for more than a minute or so.

Try to find out the specs of that bulb and find a match in a LED.
John1