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Is there a listing of known examples anywhere similar to Coppercoins lists of die varieties? I find these interesting and have started noticing more as I look, though I haven't found a BIE cent yet.
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Pillar of the Community
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There will not be a book with all known varieties for a long time. There are just way too many out there to report and list. If I remember right, there was a book published on bie cents a long while ago with many known examplea included. That was back when they had a Bie Club!
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I think the OP is talking about a die chip/crack list. There was a collector on another forum that brought up a book of die crack/chip progressions. I found it. It is: Jean Cohen's book: "The Classification and Value of Errors on the Lincoln Cent". I haven't seen this book so I don't know where you can find it, but it is supposed to have values and pics of BIE cents, spiked heads, ect. |
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I don't think there will ever be a site dedicated to Die Cracks and Die Chips. These are not errors nor varieties they are damaged dies which are common during the life of a die. Only the most major are collectible all others are spendable.
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The BIE club died  |
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How about those wavy steps....I know a few people that invested and got burned.
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When I first started collecting years ago, I would put all the cent die cracks, chips, breaks, clashes, damaged, laminations, other things into a 20 holder three ring binders. Years later I realized I wasted 4 cents for the 2X2's for a coin that was worth one cent. So what seems important to you then, will/may not be worth what you think years later.
The wavysteps and trails are interesting, but they are not doubled dies. They are a different type of variety as they happen while the dies were made. The center bar cents are a doubled die variety. What is different from the three items I mentioned? The bar cent were caused by the hub showing part of the design of the hub. On the wavysteps and trails there is a dragging of the hub, but it is not the transfer from the hub. That is why they are not called doubled dies. They are listed on coppercoins, but they are not doubled dies. The did not delist them. I find them all interesting. But I only buy strong doubled dies. I save the others, but I just don't buy them.
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