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Penny 1979 Error Or Not

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 Posted 10/25/2013  03:06 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Dandeedan to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I'm going penny crazy looking through some older pennies and I have no idea what I am doing I wish I even new how to tell what double die mean and how to till if a penny is double died?But now for my stupid questions I'm looking for errors on pennies and I found this 1979 penny that looks like the D is raised and without opening in the middle of the D and the 9 in the 1979 is broken and I'm not sure if it was struck that way or it was cut by someone but it actually looks kind of like it was struck that way? I'm not even sure what that would mean? Is it was worth something more then a penny or does it just look different then a normal 9 on a penny? Sorry for my stupid question. I was just curious if that could make it worth something? http://api10.webresizer.com/session...684767.79381
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Pic is to far away from the coin,,Doubled Die,in short is a Hub over worked left.right,up down,,ect,,its a mistake making image on the Die,,Hub gets slammed into a Die after Die is heated up,,,if Hub is over worked this can then lead to 2 or more images,,others here are better then me at this but more or less this is what happens to make a coin a Doubled Die Stuck Coin,,,Cosmos
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The post that shapes the center part of the mint mark has broken off the die. Now it just forms a filled "D".
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There are several different ways that a doubled die can be created. The ones that people are most familiar with are caused by the hub and the die being misaligned between hubbings. In other words the hub is pressed into the die blank, then the partially completed die is annealed to soften it and the hub is pressed into it again. If the die and the hub are not perfectly aligned between the two pressings the die will show a doubled image. The die and hub can be shifted to one side in relationship to each other, or they can be rotated. In the case of a rotation misalignment the point around which they are rotated can either be in the center of the die (a class 1 doubled die) or at any other point but the center (This is a different class but I forget the number)

Other types of hub doubling can be caused by the die becoming distorted during the annealing process so that features aren't in quite the same place as they were during the first pressing, or the die could be pressed by two different hubs, one sharp and new and the other worn and slightly distorted, or the die could be pressed by two different hubs that have different designs. Such as the 1943/2 P nickel. the 1942/1 P and D Mercury dimes, the 1909/8 double eagle etc. there are a couple of other types as well.
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