Happy Holidays! I Have Found 2 - 1972 S Cent, Die 2 - Doubled Die's!

Thank you for the Free Copies of your Books Crazybo.
I just haven't narrowed down if both are Mechanical Doubling?
One I can see the other?

Also those mint marks have taken some hits but I think Crazy has this one. MOST important is the sound advise Crazy gives on magnification. Personally I only go above 10 power for about 5% to 10% of my viewing and then never electronic. I only digitally photo my coins for posting purposes. I like to see um with my eye.

The line under the mint mark looks like there the polishing of the die, dipped into that area removing more field there, making a raised area under the mint mark. If this were a RPM, they usually raise above the field level. The reason I say usually, depends on how much of the field was reduced. But it looks like a normal mint mark from what I can see. If it were a RPM, I would expect it to be raised about as high as the mint mark. It isn't.

True, sometime too much mag hurts more than helps.

Greg, to answer about sending in for grading. You have a ways to go before that. Yea, it the "rage" now, but its just that, a fad, bunch of hype, the "make big bucks" appeal. To have a coin really worthy of putting in a plastic coffin(), slab, they need to be higher than a MS68 for most "modern" coins. Those are coins out of mint sets/proof sets, host of best. These will hold value over time as "ordinary" business strike coins. Some error coins and doubled dies, the high value ones may be worthwhile to slab. But with TPG fees running $40 plus, your coin has to have a pretty high value to begin with. Some folks say $200, as a minimum value before submission. See the fallicy of the get rich quick books? They don't tell you that. Only ones getting rich quickly are the writers!


The two coins shown are waaayyy down the scale, see, as no special features, they are "face value", 1c, 5c, 10c, etc. All just normal coins. Every blue moon one of us will find a really good one. Recently a 69S DDO-001 was found, because it was "the big one", even in a beat up circulated state still has a $100+ value, so off to TPG it went. We like to hear these stories, hoping maybe we'll be the next one! So ask away, keep searching, mostly have fun with it!

Your questions are not annoying in any way. I'm sorry if you got replies that seemed rude. I think you will find that is not the norm here.

If you're new to coin collecting, it's hard to find information on your own because you simply won't know the proper words to use in your search.

It wasn't too many years ago that I gave myself a headache every evening just trying to learn about Doubled Dies. I am just grateful for the people who have spent thousands of hours researching error coins and trying to teach the rest of us.

Keep searching. There's good stuff out there waiting to be found.

Thank you Gentleman!