2008 Penny- Double Ear?

I do not know of any 2008-P DDO's on record.

This one is not it. It is a normal one with contact damage on the earlobe. A doubled ear means the hubing created an enlarged ear. This one is a normal one.

When you do find something you will know for sure, like your 1997P-1DO-001. Your eyes are still seeing too much. If there is a variety on the coin you have under your glass, it will leap at you. Right now your trying to convince yourself that something is there, when there isn't anything yet. But keep asking questions, your learning with each coin your posting and other benefit also.

Here are a few that Jason Cuvelier put together:




Note overall size of the ears? This was caused by the hubbing process on the die. It is like when you use a rubber stamp and make a double stamp note exactly over each other. The doubled images make wider/taller/doubled letters. Same with the hubbing process. The devices are doubled/tripled/shifted at the base of the devices. Machine damage has normal overall size of devices, but are damaged during the strike. So wen you look down at a machine damaged coin, it looks like there are two images because the damage has pushed/damaged the devices. But the overall size of the devices is the same as normal device. This is because the die is normal struck and then moved/slid on the way before/after the strike. This is not a hubbing issue, but rather an issue with the machine. So the coin is machine damaged.

On a hub doubled die, the devices can be affect in different ways. In fact it has been identified as 9 different ways divided into classes. Even then it can be a combination of of the 9 different ways. Sometimes the hubbing maybe rotated, or the hubs may have been different than a previous used hub, altered hub, damaged hub and the list goes on. On a hub doubled die the devices may show a spread between hubbings and this is noted on the coins that the die will strike. Each coin struck with that die will have the same doubling. (The dies do wear on the outside edges of the devices, so if the doubling is toward the rim, this maybe missing, but may still show on interior devices.) So the dies are called doubled dies because the die is doubled during the hubbing process. So on an ear the doubling maybe enlarged/doubled. So when you look down at the ears overall size (Usually the lobe) The size would show enlargement. Not just a line on the lobe while the lobe is normal sized. Machine damaged coins will show the coins devices/ears like there is an extra line, but the size of the device is normal. Why? The ejection/die movement/coin contact had altered the normal strike. The die was normal and the coin was altered.

Hope this helps. I know this thread will open further discussions, so please ask a further question in a thread with your question. That way when you want to look up this question later, a search will find it easier.

Kevin: Start a new thread on that subject. Best to keep the subject fresh for a new question on a different coin. I'm already afraid we've got off the beaten path on this thread. LOL Be glad to cover that in a new thread with images of your coin you were wondering about.

Post an image of your coin and question. I can add from there.