1982 Cent Small Date DDR- Please Look- I'd Love Any Feedback

Thank you for your feedback, as I'm looking through my posted photos I'm realizing they are not the crystal clear photos I started with before trying to optimize and edit. Do you have any advice for what size and quality percentage I should pick in order to show the pictures I'm seeing? Any picture taking advice when it comes to photo graphing coins in the future? Thank you again.
Tiffany

Your pictures are pretty good. I think Coop likes the pic's to be around 600 or so and from there you can play a bit with the quality. That said, you need to judge whether a 500 photo at higher quality is better than a 600 photo at lower quality. You'll dial it in and from what you have posted here, your doing fine.

I took a look at CC and noted that they post that only 4 specimens have been found, but that's a little dated information. The specimen you posted actually has one of the better EPUs you'll see for this date especially on a zinc coin. EPU for copper or zinc normally is pretty washed out and causes a great deal of squinting on my part to vet the coin and return it to the wild.

Hi Tiffany - I'm no expert, but I believe the markers are specific to die/die sets used to coin. Many of the die sets for years where varieties exist are normal and have their own unique markers just as variety die/die sets have where doubling exists (DDO, DDR, RPM, etc.). The example that comes to mind are the 1922 Plain die sets (I believe that there were 4 where the D mintmark disappeared). Folks shop for their 1922 No D specimen generally by the die set. What can happen (and does) is that in various die states, some markers come and some markers go. If you note, many times CC has a MDS set of information regarding markers, but not for EDS or LDS for instance. Sometimes they have a couple die states for a variety. If you look at those, you'll see some of the more significant markers/witness marks migrate from die state-to-die state. But often they are different.

One of our experts will be along to confirm or refute some of the detail I'm posting. So hang in there and you'll get an answer.

Thank you! After looking at a 1983 that I thought was a DDR I found a while back I see a big difference in the splitting, or lack there of :), I'd like to post pictures soon to confirm that the 1983 is indeed doubled so that I have an an example to go by of what genuine doubling looks like to the naked eye. Thanks again, I appreciate all of you guys responding, I don't look at coins to get rich, I'm really intrigued by the composition, structure and design of each one- sounds corny maybe but I love that every coin is just a little bit different than the next, even if they all display the same words, date and/or mint mark.

This side by side is awesome, thank you, I will go back and compare. Now, should I be able to see clear doubling - like the picture shows- from the naked eye or would it only be noticed through a magnifying glass or digital photo?

Thanks Pete, I'm definitely new the the group and find myself having a tough time navigating through the site since I'm still learning proper terms and trying to ask useful questions to help advance my understanding. Coop if you'd be kind enough to redirect me to where you may have previously addressed these questions, I would be more than happy to save you the time and effort of reposting them, thank you again, it's nice to have a place for a novice like me to ask questions without feeling like an ignoramus!

Thank you Rackster!