1968-D KHD Tdo-Fs101.damage Or Real Tdo-Fs101?

I agree with John1.

I think you guys are looking at the wrong thing here. Doubled dies don't happen on hand punched mint marks. There appears to be slight doubling on the W in at least one picture there.

Let's see a magnified picture of We Trust on both coins.

@Brandmeister...here you go, in order of original pics.









Thank you

http://www.varietyvista.com/12%20Ke...201968-D.htm


That is definitely interesting. The rest of Trust is flattened and somewhat worn, but that W has the traditional serif splitting. There are a number of doubled Kennedy hubs running around during the late 60s—as Silviosi and others have discussed—but that coin is worth investigating as one of the three listed DDOs. Unfortunately, VV doesn't markers for most of those coins.

Brandmeister,


Please elaborate.
John1

Dowhat is correct in his interpretation of my post.

Hub doubling (HDO/HDR/SDO/SDR) and die doubling ( DDO / DDR/TDO/TDR/QDO/QDR) are separate from mint mark doubling from repunched mint marks (RPM). In the pre-1990s era when mint marks were punched by hand into the die, that was done as a final step, after the die hubbing was complete. At the point when the mint mark was added, the die was already either doubled or not, completely independent of the mint mark getting manually hammered into the die surface.

The original post is asking if the coins in question are tripled die obverse coins. But the focus of the discussion became the mint marks. The mint marks have no bearing on the TDO diagnosis. The conclusion that the coins were nothing interesting based on the mint marks is, in my opinion, the wrong conclusion. The second coin—and possibly the first coin—show a degree of genuine doubling on the W and possibly other letters. Whether that doubling is the more common (and less valuable) hub or series doubling, versus more a more valuable minor or major doubled die, should be carefully analyzed.

For the record: I consider it analyzed when someone with considerable Kennedy half knowledge—like atrox001—takes a look at the pictures and provides some background information. =)

I might have asked this before and missed the answer. Where does one acquire access to these CONECA listings? Website, book, cuneiform tablets acquired by secret handshake?

The only CONECA resources that I've used are the free cent and nickel variety catalogs (and Varity Vista, of course). Everything else seemed under construction. Are there databases for all denominations accessible to CONECA members?