1939 1 Cent, Different Size Date, Die Wear?

Looks pretty much the same to me. Nice photos,what are you using?
John1

Top coin is more worn

wow john excellent great find. here is and image to show you what you have. its a wide date nice find. I have grid complete now. this will make things a lot easier. here is your image. john I was trying. to hand hold to take this photo.

John100, thank you and you weren't being harsh at all so no worries, your information was exactly what I was looking for.

Like I said earlier, I was just messing around with my new setup and I never noticed the differences for this 1939 before until now and I was curious if it was something regarding the dies being different or just simple circulation wear.

I've never heard of a "wide 9" variety before, but that is probably due to exactly like you said, how many collectors actually care as I would assume it would be classified as a minor variety.

John1, the camera, lens and LED ring light with all the power adapters, HDMI Cable and the Remote control cost me $160.00 Canadian with free Shipping included! (no border fees and got handed over to Canada post as expedited with tracking).

I originally gave myself a $300.00 CAD budget to get a decent camera and copy stand, but looking at copy stands online pretty much took up my entire budget so I designed my own copy stand and purchased the steel rods, bearings and a Stepper Rod for $70.00 CAD and 3D Printed the plastic parts and the Arm that holds the camera and I managed to turn my original $300.00 budget into a $250.00 budget.

The camera itself I am very pleased with as it has HDMI that takes photos on a memory card at 2K resolution hooked up to an external monitor and USB capabilities (what the pics for this post were taken with) at 1080P HD on my Macbook.

Overall best purchase I've made and shows doubled dies beautifully, I can also do full coin photos that are very similar to true views with extreme zooming to pick at any detail you see on a coin.

Thanks for telling us the price. Great set up and great photos.
John1

Okiecoiner, I'm not big on using graphs and all that, but there really is a difference in size even if it is only minor.

Here is a photo of both the "Thick 9" and "Thin 9"




I really didn't want to have to mark up these photos like this but just for better understanding of what I am seeing you can clearly see a difference in the following photos.






The over all size of the "Thick 9" is also bigger, all the photos were taken from the exact same distance. If those aren't convincing enough you should see the "thick 3" compared to the "thin 3", there is also a good spacing difference between each digit.

If you are looking for different 9, look at the 1969 large date nine, there is a huge or different nine used so I guess the huge price this coin gets at auctions. This could be just natural die wear, the way different pressman polished a die or set the pressure. Although I have no love for the 1969 large date, and a reasonable explanation for it's creation, the market talks. My other guess is if you look minutely at any regular circulating coin you will find all kinds of minor variety, if you can't notice a defect or difference naturally it's hard to have a big following.