1979 Canadian Cent. Is Doubling On The Entire Date Common?

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Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 11:06 am I have found this 1979 Canadian cent with strong doubling on the entire date. When I did a little research all I can find is doubling on the 979. There is no mention on the entire date. I hope these pics help. Is this doubling on the entire date common or since every site show NA for doubling on the entire date, is this the only one known? Edited by Jim0815 02/20/2018 11:34 am Report this Post to the Staff

JimmyD Bedrock of the Community Canada 21620 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 11:47 am Not the only one known. They must be fairly common as Coins And Canada has it listed under errors and varieties. http://coinsandcanada.com/coins-pri...nt-1965-2012 Edited by JimmyD 02/20/2018 11:49 am Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 11:58 am Thanks @JimmyD. That is the one of the site I looked at and while they have it listed when it shows doubling on the 1979 it also shows N/A. Interesting coin nonetheless! Report this Post to the Staff
JimmyD Bedrock of the Community Canada 21620 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 12:32 pm The N/A just means a photo was not available. Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 12:55 pm @JimmyD, the leaf is also doubled. I apologize for not stating that earlier. Edited by Jim0815 02/20/2018 12:55 pm Report this Post to the Staff
gidjit Pillar of the Community Canada 1980 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 2:43 pm i picked up 300 mint rolls of 79 pennies from the bank a while back and opened a handful of rolls and found a whole bunch of different varieties including a few of the ones like yours, a lot must of happened at the mint that year cause there are a lot of different varieties to look for Edited by gidjit 02/20/2018 2:44 pm Report this Post to the Staff
gidjit Pillar of the Community Canada 1980 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 3:27 pm for the sake of this discussion I decided to open a roll and the pile in front of the roll are either dbl 79 or dbl 979,s the dbl 9's I put back in the roll and didnt search for anyother errors the pile of 5 in the other pic was 5 dbl 979's from this roll I didnt find any dbl 1979's in this roll but I m sure I have found a couple this was a lucky roll by the way Report this Post to the Staff
gidjit Pillar of the Community Canada 1980 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 3:40 pm i just checked ebay and there are a few dbl 1979's there,, most of the BU 1979's being sold were mine at one point lol Report this Post to the Staff
papeldog Pillar of the Community Canada 1923 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 3:41 pm I picked up 25 rolls years back at a buck a roll I found several varieties I saved all the MS-66 and higher I got one MS-67, I'd guess 15-16 MS-66 with different DP dates 6-7 one clip coins a struck through and a wrong planchet out of the rolls. A very good year to search good luck and congrats on your find Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 5:25 pm This is Die Deterioration Doubling, and the doubling on the entire date is uncommon. I searched a lot of 1979 rolls before finding one doubled enough that ICCS would agree with me.... I don't have a closeup of the date... but here is the coin. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 5:56 pm Thanks for all of the replies so I am assuming @SPP-Ottawa that my coin is uncommon! Report this Post to the Staff
papeldog Pillar of the Community Canada 1923 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 6:01 pm I agree the full date doubled is uncommon I have one in circulated but none in MS Report this Post to the Staff
vonigohcr Pillar of the Community Canada 665 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 7:05 pm Hi A couple of firsts here. Inspired by this forum, I searched through a bucket of pennies that I had and found a 1979 variety... It is not the full doubled date variety but the "979" is doubled. It also has the obverse variety where the Queen has a double chin on the same coin. Given this jumped out of only 50-60 1979 pennies, I have to imagine that these varieties are fairly common. This is also my first attempt at both taking and posting photos of coins... It isn't as easy as a beach-side family snap shot. Any critique is welcome. Report this Post to the Staff
Smallcentguy Pillar of the Community Canada 1984 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 7:12 pm https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Canad...AOSwVLRaUPKH Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 02/20/2018 8:27 pm Thanks everyone for all of the GREAT comments. I do believe I will put this cent in a 2x2 and enjoy it! Definitely not a spender! Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 02/23/2018 11:15 am I contacted a gentleman at CoinsandCanada and asked if they would like pictures of this cent since they do not have one on file. Pictures of this coin have been sent! Again, thank you all for your insight on this thread. Edited by Jim0815 02/23/2018 11:16 am Report this Post to the Staff
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