Posted 08/04/2008 10:06 am
What you are seeing on the date is call Die Deterioration Doubling, which is very common on the 1955 Lincoln Cent. If you look at the 1953 Lincoln Cent, you will see more than a few with the same characteristics.
The cause was simple; over used dies. The reason for the seemingly overenthusiastic popularity of this natural occurrence as the die ages is its very faint resemblance to the real 1955 doubled die, thus the name "poor man's double die".
BJ Neff
The cause was simple; over used dies. The reason for the seemingly overenthusiastic popularity of this natural occurrence as the die ages is its very faint resemblance to the real 1955 doubled die, thus the name "poor man's double die".
BJ Neff
