1937 LC-Is This A DDO Or MD ?

Thank you Coop. One of these days I'll be able to tell the difference. (I hope)

Well, let me see if this helps? I'm using your images and mine put together to show machine damage vs normal cent. I'll even through in a few images of similar devices that area a doubled die. (not the same size or the same size though..sorry)

Note how the MD reduces the devices compared with a normal coin?



While this looks like MD on the doubled die, note the bottom of the 'E'? A nice notching there.


Here is a nice DDO on TRUST:


More doubling on TRUST:

Note how the hub doubling enlarges the devices. Machine damage reduces devices to even smaller than a normal coin. The doubled die has the doubling on the die. Machine damage is a normal die, that damaged the devices after the strike happened. That is why I call them machine damaged.

So you are learning. It just takes time. While preparing the images for this thread, I picked up a minor 1937-S DDO. Probably not listed. But the 9 was the clue that something was going on. But when I took images of TRUST, there it was on the 'U'. I didn't realize it show that well on TRUST. I'll get around to images of it later on this week. (probably more in the roll as well.