1947-D Cent With 7/7?

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There is something about worn dies at the Mint that creats a shadowy effect and makes it appear to be a double die or duplicated date or other numbers/letters

Not sure how you guys put the neat little boxes around stuff in previous posts so I just changed the color to blue. I have a 1996 cent with the shadowy effect (will attempt to add pic ), and this really appears to have a raised surface to it. I think my original pics were too large (< 100k but >500 pixels per side) so I cropped them and am attempting to reload.

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I think it worked When I previewed the picture links were in blue. So here you go

Just Carl hit it right on the nose. You have abraded die doubling that comes from die wear and nothing else. What causes it is this: As the die wears from striking coins, the molecules of steel that are not in alignment with the rest of the molecules spread outward toward the edge of the design. As the spread outward, they create grooves in the face of the die. This causes the lines we refer to as 'luster' and 'cartwheel' on coins. When this wear becomes excessive it starts to chip away at the edges of the devices farthest from the center of the design that have hard lines perpendicular to the flow of the molecules - those devices that are parallel with the rim. The effect is a cavity in the die which transfers to the coin as a raised hump on the outer edges of these devices. If you look at the top of IN GOD WE TRUST and at the outer (left) edge of the L of LIBERTY, you will likely see the same effect.

This effect became famous during the mad dash to collect and sell 1955 doubled dies. Many people took these coins to dealers thinking they had something special, only to be turned away with a penny in their pocket. After a while these caught on and some unscrupulous dealers started taking advantage of the ill-educated public by calling these 'Poor Man's double dies', selling them for a few dollars each. Truth of the matter is, all these coins are nothing more than normal coins exhibiting excessive die wear. Nearly half of all 1955 cents show this to some degree because the mint used the dies that year far beyond their normal life...reason unknown.

In effect, this form of doubling might be neat to look at, perhaps interesting to collect, but it realistically has no value. They can commonly be found on cents of the following years, although these are not the only years on which this occurs: 1929, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, and 1955.