The 1969-S Doubled Die Lincoln

So, I buy a roll of 1969-S Lincoln cents in order to fill a blank in the pages we fill up prior to going to a major coin show. Singles make great album fillers and the roll looked pretty decent, so I bought it.

Going through the roll, looking for anything obvious, like a few MS-65 or higher Reds, the elusive doubled die, I put up 3 coins near the middle of the row and I look.




Hummm, Man that 3rd coin, farthest to the right looks awful fuzzy.
So, I take it to the microsope and camera.

First thing I look at on every Cent is Liberty and go clockwise....



Geez ! That's one funky LIBERTY. Under the scope, portions look tripled. I am not so sure the picture represents the true image I get to see under the scope. Wow, pretty exciting. It looks like an extreme Machine Doubling created when an earthquake hit.

OK, so for IGWT... I concentrate on TRUST because of the "U" and in most cases that letter of all usually is jacked up in a doubled die.




WOW. That "S" Needs to go on a diet ! Hummm nothing tooooo overly great with In God We Trust, though most look alittle fuzzy, at best.

Now the Date. All I could do is laugh. I was like, I seen another 1969-S post in here that an individual says that their heart skipped a beat when they looked at a potentially doubled date. How close is this ?



MAN ! My only concern about all of this was the near triple images I was seeing over at LIBERTY. I had to adjust the lighting some and look again.



This is definitely another conversation piece at shows and on my website, But I decided to bring the pics here for you all to see. I have two other 1969-s coins that are similar to this one, but the LIBERTY and Date aren't nearly as impressive.

Hope you enjoyed the story