A 1964-P Die Set Produces A Nearly Constant Machine Doubling

Its kind of unique and interesting to see things come out of 5,000 count bags. This 1964-P bag has shown me a few DDO's and I was hoping to see a DDR once in a while, but nothing as of yet.

What I have managed to do is find a die pair that is producing a significant amount of Machine Doubling on the reverse of the coin.

The obverse of this die pair has these half circle die scratches on the back side of Lincoln's head. Throughout this bag - and I am about 1250 coins into it, the obverse die is there, but on some the reverse die was replaced and a new shiny reverse is seen.


The Obverse and the die scratches look like this;


The reverse shows the Machine Doubling in a few letters of UNITED, almost always in the TED;





The word STATES can vary, but for the most part the word STATES is probably the most pronounced Machine Doubling.





The Interesting thing about the "A" in STATES is the triple lined die scratch that comes off the middle right of the "A". Its on every one of the three or four rolls of these Machine Doubling examples.





Another area on the reverse that shows up on all coins I quickly looked at is this set of scratched near the word CENT;




As you can see from the photos, there is no notching, or splitting of the corners of the letters, which means thy are not a doubled die or notched. This die set can be misleading because in some coins, the Machine Doubling is very strong. I had to choose one that would play well with the lighting I have in place.

So if your bag or roll hunting, look for commonalities amongst the coins. It will help you quickly go through the coins and allows you to separate them into different tubes or piles, and making identification faster and more accurate.