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It seems to me that pennies, nickels & dimes are found to be doubled on here more than any other coins. So since I'm only searching quarters & Kennedy's, can anyone give me a ballpark idea of the average number of Kennedy's or quarters you go through before you find a doubled die? There have been several questionable ones I have discarded and probably shouldn't have until I learned more, but I guess that's a rookie mistake. But I have went through a BUNCH of coins and still haven't found one doubled die that just slaps you in the face when you look at it. Or a very obvious one you can see with the naked eye. I'm just trying to get an idea of approximately how much time you spend looking at each coin and how many coins you may look through before finding a doubled one when it comes to quarters or Kennedy's? Even though coop said my last find was very minor doubling, I think he was just trying to be nice since nobody else chimed in so I will be on the warpath all day today to find a doubled die.
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I have actually found few doubled dies on quarters, but only on the newer State Quarter and ATB series. Some of the designs seem more prone to doubling than others, but you may need a microscope or good loupe to help you see some of them. Check out Wexlers website to see what to look for. http://doubleddie.com/228401.htmlEdited by Dave42
06/25/2019 10:08 am
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It really depends on whether you get mostly Denver or mostly Philly minted coins. I get mostly Philly coins and I get a doubled die in around 1 in every 2 or 3 rolls of quarters, almost always an ATB DDR like Dave42. If you get mostly Denver coins, odds are pretty bad. Doubled dies are almost nonexistent on the newer Denver coins. You'd have to get lucky and find one of the rare 60s-70s DDs or try to find a newer Philly coin to have a chance. |
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That could be a big part of my problem tanman, it seems like almost all of my coins are Denver mint. I live in Oregon so could that be because I live on the west coast?
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The machinery At Denver is a lot newer than the Philly mint. So wear and tear on the hubbing process creates more doubled dies. In time Denver will have more as the hub process continues to wear down with use. http://doubleddie.com/58201.htmlHow dies are made from Wexler's site. If you go to coin shows, the OBW rolls from years gone by, are the best way to find doubled die/RPMs. Why? Because you are the first one to look at that roll. I've paid as much for a roll as $100. It was a roll that was put together from the best examples from a mint bag years ago. That sounds expensive, but they are 1949-S Wheat cents and all are higher grades. I've sold some in the past for $10+. Still have 7/8's of a roll still left. |
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Btw, you have great YouTube videos coop
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The reason you see so many more doubled dies on the cents is because of how many more dies they have to use to strike thema cent die will strike 1 -1.5 million coins so between 4,000 and 2,600 pair of dies are needed to strike 4 billion cents. If one die in a thousand dies gets past the inspectors as doubled you would expect there to be between 2 and 4 doubled dies per year. But for quarters typical mintage is around 260 million and a quarter die last for around half a million strikes so about 520 dies. At the same 1 in a thousand rate you would expect one doubled die out of every other design or about two per year. What doesn't make sense is why some years have so many such as the Minnesota State Quarter that has over 68 DDR, or the 2009 LP2 cent that has something like 100 different DDR. for the cent it would have meant that close to one out of every three rev dies was a doubled die. |
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OBW stands for Original Bank Wrapped.
Errers and Varietys.
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Thanks for all the info, good stuff!
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Thanks. I was checking to see if I still have all those images. They are somewhere? I still have the home video files for DVD. Seems like there were around 900 images for the you tube video files. My online image host show 9,773 images there. Almost 10K. Just be a few more days. I'm always adding images for education stuff all the time.
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Can do! My spreadsheet tells me I went thorough 189 boxes of halves over several years. 189,000 half dollars yielded: 1. 4192 1971-D with 8 DDOs 2. 3348 1972-P with 4 DDOs (two minor ones) 3. 1756 1973-D with 2 DDOs 4. 1671 1974-D with 7 DDOs 5. 457 1977-D with 1 DDOI kept the DDOs that were evident without needing a microscope. I don't care for ones that are very minor. I found a LOT of very minor 1971-Ds Please note the above numbers represent, for eaxmple, For 1977-D only one in 457 were DDO. But remember it took me going through 189,000 halves to find 457 1977-D halves to look at! Don't get discouraged though. If you look at the list I posted on your other thread about what else to look for, it can be an awful lot of (addicting) fun. Edited by Earle42
06/25/2019 5:59 pm
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If you want to find one visible to the naked eye as you flip through a bunch of coins, well, that's probably not going to happen in your lifetime. Finding doubling takes more examination, and in most cases some type of magnification.
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@nick - I consider the ones I listed above as being visible to the naked eye. At least they were to mine. Of course that was before I needed reading glasses  |
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Earle42, you are exactly the person I needed to talk to! Perfect answer, it's making a lot more sense now. I thought I had been through a lot of Kennedy's lol.
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Nick10, the 74 Kennedy is notorious for being the best coin that you can see doubling with the naked eye. Of course I use a microscope but I always look at them good with my eyes first. USS has some nice ones
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