Nice 1972 Penny With Some Doubling?

You're new, so I'll give you a bit of a break, but will give you one major piece of advice. Take that video and those like it and erase them. For some reason, people start drooling over these videos and books, getting the idea it is possible and actually quite probable for anyone to achieve such great____________ (fill in the blanks) after reading/viewing such dribble. It stirs the emotion and inflames tremendous "I gotta wanna haves". It seldom ever happens.

You say your a silver searcher/stacker. Do you know grading? Do you know what it takes to find such a pristine example of such a coin to be certified? Do you even know the steps of attribution, certification, where-who-how to sell it? Are you prepared to do all of what it may take to get to the point of answering all these...with your eyes shut and walking backwards chewing gum at the same time?

Those all may sound silly, but this doesn't happen by happenstance, it takes diligent sustained CORRECT effort to be able to do this in this industry. Are there some "lucky" ones. Sometimes there are, like any lottery winner tho, it's all chance, and it doesn't happen that often.


Now let's go to your questions. You even have a clue what you have in your pix? Doubt it, not even a guess? It's nothing more than MD, it is not an error, it holds no premium. If I objectively tear into grading your coin, you will be sorely disappointed. Let's just say it won't grade high enough to warrant a submission to a TPG. The unspoken rule is your coin needs to be worth over $150 to offset the costs of submission, mailings, insurance, etc. If you want, I will nit pick your very common date 1974D LMC and show you just why it will not achieve a high grade even tho it is "shiny and Red" if you ask. But it would get about a MS64 tops. One list it as raw worth a whopping $.30 in MS65

Red(RD) just means it still retains the original mint color(luster)
Red/Brown(RB) means that the natural tendency of any metal to oxidize and tone is beginning to happen and has darkened slightly but has at lest 30% of luster left.
Brown(BN) just means it has less than 30% luster and has turned it's brown color naturally.

Here is another angle.. Maybe doubling on the O too?

to CCF Quarinteen!

Most excellent Crazyb0! Nice to give references as well E&V!

Keep searching! One day it can happen!

thanks for the feedback

On the g in god not sure where Jeep came from

Well he is incorrect. It is Machine Doubling. Nothing is actually doubled, just flattened on the bottoms of the devices. A doubled die the devices would be raised, not flattened in.

Why do some of you get so salty on these forums ? He said he was just starting out. For those of who are new to this, we are trying to learn Errors and such. Why not simply state MD and give some links to error DD examples ? I thought this was a great coin site for people, I'm starting to wonder with all the negativity. Just my opinion!

As Coop (Richard Cooper...the EXPERT) said:



And a good piece of advice you as OP need to follow up on:



Because you see quarinteen, there are only TWO know DDO's for 1974D and neither look like yours:






@Novicecoins, fair point, but from our perspective, yes you guys are new, have a lot of learning to do. So when you ask here, you get responses from those of us who have much practice in this field, and some like Mr. Cooper have devoted their life to the study of coins, written many books and contributed to a myriad of numismatic publications...and you question his "appraisal" and take the opinion of a coin dealer of dubious ability to recognize a true error? Lose the sensitivity to being told you are wrong, accept other views and find out...for real. Consensus doesn't necessarily mean absolute truth, but may just point you in the right direction. Only one dissension doesn't mean it is so