Back To The 80's BU Rolls

Well, first you can discount all shadow doubling caused by bad dies/planchets, you can discount all the ripple and ridge lines caused by striking pressure and die wear, you can discount all forms of split plating, and you can discount most of the clash marks you will find. All of this stuff is exceedingly common for 1980s cents.

Having said that, there are a number of pleasant surprises in the decade..

1980 DDO
1982 LDC DDO
1982 SDZ DDR
1983 DDO (five different ones)
1983 DDR (one major, one less najor)
1983D RPM (pretty minor)
1984 DDO (doubled ear, then the one with doubling in the lettering)
1984D DDO (nice one, often overlooked)
1985 DDO (little known, kind of minor)
1985D-1989D RPMs (a lot of them are nice, all of them are scarce)
1987 DDO (decent, but not major)
1988 DDO (a couple of semi-decent ones)
1989 DDO (a number of 'fat date' dies)
1989D DDR (a few minor ones)

This is just the better stuff to look for...but you never know what you might find, so check everything. Problem with most people when they are just getting started is that they miss the fact that no book contains all that's out there, and even if one did, it should be used after you find something for identification - not to form a list of what to look through. Doing the latter will have you missing the chance to discover something new.

As for errors - the die and strike errors would be the same as for any other Lincoln Cent (mostly any coin for that matter) - the planchet errors are what would be different. Unplated cents are more abundant (although scarce) for this period. A number of other minor oddities show up especially during the mid-1980s because of the composition change, but many of them are rather common and are collectible only for curiosity sake.

This is about as good as I can do from memory.

Just an addition to this fine list. There is a nice 1984 DDO that is not the doubled ear. The pickup point is doubling along the bottom of the bust and a larger look to the lower right portions of the 8 and 4 There are separations visible on the numerals on early die state stuff. This is the one CC mentions as the one with doubling in the lettering. It is clear on LIBERTY.

Also, I'm up to 7 different DDOs on 1983 cents. So check them all.

I'm not sure if the 1985 DDO mentioned is the same as one with strong doubling on the WE TRUST as well as the date but it is very noticeable.