1972 Lincoln Cent DD

Thingee, I can't tell from the pics. I have just recently gone thru just shy of 6000 1972 Lincolns and I am dieing to tell the tale and post pics and I will when I get new drivers that work with Vista and my scanner. Suffice it to say that I found a few DDOs.

I learned the following about the "2" in 1972. The 009 DDO die shows a mirror image immediately above the horizontal bottom bar of the 2. It always seemed to start about 1/3 of the way from the right point which flairs upward and continues out to the point.

It almost seems as though there was erosion on the master die in the exact same location, too, though. On almost every coin I looked at there were small marks along the top of the horizontal bar on the two and reminded me of die erosion except for the way it looked. Instead of shadowing the length of the bar, these looked like solar flares for lack of a better way to put it. There would be erosion lines running perpendicular to the horizontal bar. Generally there would be two or three of them, and depending on die state they became progressively more obvious. When I first started looking at the coins, I wanted to confuse this with the real DDO - 009. Only after I found one did I realize the differences.

Sorry if this is not clear, if you can get better pics it will help.
Jim

This is one of the minor DDOs for 1972, you can also see some evidence of it on the 7...I dont have my books right now so I cant tell you which it is.

Thanks,
Bill

Congrats, thingee, they are so hard to find. Merry Christmas to you and your's.
Jim