Odds Of Finding A Doubled Die

I went through 10 boxes of pennies to find 2 legit DDOs. Granted as I went through those boxes and did more research about errors and varieties I've learned a lot so far but have lots more to learn. I expect to find more doubled dies as I go through more boxes and learn here around people that are extremely knowledgeable!
Good luck! You'll eventually find some.

Cheers

Glad to help.
Here are some of the ones I found (and posted on other threads before):
72:


1973:


1974-D:



1977-D A bit rougher to see in my lousy pic (old pic), and also not as prominent as the others. But I was able to see this by eye. I did find it first under a microscope because I was running a bunch through, but I immediately took it out to look at it and see how good/bad the doubling looked in hand.


one to look for, if you can go through a lot of junk silver at a coin shop or get some rolls maybe from APMEX is the 1964 and 1964-D. Some of these are incredible to see. I found mine in a roll of silver ones I had put away as a kid.



I have found 7 total of these and kept 5 b/c of different FG varieties and RPMs on them. Sorry I do not know the number of halves I went through to find these as I was not keeping records at the time, and they were in a large collection of 1964 half rolls I had access to in the past.

n the silver quarters don't forget to look for the type B REV from 56-64. This was a proof rev used to make circulation coins.
https://www.washingtontype-b.com/

Once you see one a couple of them side by side with a normal REV, the type Bs stand out rather clearly. They don;t show the normal REV on this sight, but with the normal one the E and S fo STATES touch. Before I had found one, I just kept telling myself to see if I thought an ant would be able to crawl between the letters. When I found one it made sense as to what I was looking for.

Things like this and the 64 DDOs likely can be picked from a local coin shop's silver melt pile. I know my local store said he just does not have the time to check for them. so if you find something in the silver melt - its no difference in price!

I agree with MS63. Nice 57

Now compare the space between the E and S in STATES with the pics of the type B REV at that link I posted above. You will see how your letters are almost touching since its a normal RE. Seeing the two will give you a better idea on ID'ing the different types.

I remember when I was found out about the REV types, I kept questioning myself as to if what I was finding was a type B or not...until I found one. The type B REV just about stood up and announced to me it was certainly a Type B when I saw it

I'll post anything I find tomorrow when I go through them. I think that type B will be an easier one to identify than everything else I've been looking for