1960 D/D North Lincoln Cent

I have the greater part two rolls but that doesn't mean the coin is not scarce. I have never had any additional offered to me and because I've never put a push on these in my newspaper and magazine ads, they are still here. I have in excess of 400 rolls of RPMs; not all are full but many are ... and perhaps 100 rolls give or take 25 rolls one way or the other of doubled dies. I have a bad habit of buying what is offered to me when it's a good deal. In effect, I've been buying out estates, dealer stocks, cherrypicker finds, etc., since the early 1980s. I still have coins from the Kramer estate and from Gordon Harnack! (Al Kramer wrote the original book on Denver Mint RPM cents and Harnack the original work on the S Mint RPM cents -- both in the 1960s).

To give you an idea of what a few hundred represents, I had 300 1984 Doubled Die Obverse #2 cents in the 1980s and sold them all in the $25 range in my ads appearing in Coin World, Numismatic News and COINage Magazine. That number had a just about a zero impact on the scarcity of the coin. I have never once had one offered back to me.

Very common RPMs are the 1959-D/D/D RPM#1 and 1961-D/Horiz/D with me selling well over 1000 of each over the years.

kakaratt77,

It's a very nice RPM. When I was still editor of the CherryPickers' Guide (had to give it up due to health and needed time to catch up) I assigned FS#s to a bunch of Lincoln Cent RPMs. I almost assigned one to this coin.

Bill Fevaz and JT Stanton numbers used in the CherryPickers' Guide.

The latest edition covering Half-Cents through Jefferson nickels will be out soon (hopefully around August).

I was working with the images of the 1960D-1MM-013 and 016 and realized the locations on the two are the same for the mint mark. The later die state RPMs are showing the same locations as well. But how do we know they were from different dies? A side by side will help show it:

Note the sizes of the mint marks? The 013 is struck deeper into the die. (making it look larger)

So a closer look is needed of the coin by the OP to see what is going on. It might show the single line in the center or double line in the center?

The secondary Mintmark on RPM#13 is also much stronger than RPM#16.


#19 is wider North.

Thanks, didn't understand OP, haha. Jeff