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Valued Member
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going thru some stuff and I think this is the 84 d DDO #1 what do think ? thanks co   |
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New Member
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my thoughts looks like die chatter.
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Pillar of the Community
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Without a doubt this is a doubled die, and without a doubt it is NOT 1984D-1DO-001. The mintmark is in the wrong place. This is likely a new discovery.
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can I send it to you to look at coopercoins ?
thanks
co
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Pillar of the Community
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See it for yourself. This is my site's image overlaid on top of your lower image with all the points of the date matching perfectly. The mintmark on your coin is clearly northeast of the mintmark on 1984D-1DO-001. It's impossible for one die to strike mintmarks in two different places. Nice find.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Send an email to me please.
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Valued Member
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thanks for all your help and I just emailed you
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice job on the score 909! (Sounds like Maxwell Smart! Right, 99!)
Cool to find a doubled die that's been dormant for 26 years!
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Valued Member
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thanks scooby
will know for sure once coppercoins has it in hand .
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Valued Member
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what I'm really wondering is how the doubling is the same but the mint mark is in a different spot I have been looking at the two and my coins mint mark is closer to the date and it looks like the one on coppercoins the mint mark is tilted a little . is that normal to have two different dies with what looks like the same doubling ?
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That's a good question, and I'm not even going to pretend like I know the answer. I'm sure Chuck (or any of our other numerous pros) will follow up with an answer.
I have way too much to learn still. I know the mintmarks were added after the dies were made, so maybe a working hub was doubled? Then created working dies that the mintmarks were added to? Just speculating.
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 amazing find.  Jim |
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The process by which dies are made is repeated step fpr step with every one of the thousands of dies made per year. The chances that very similar doubling could appear on two dies in one year is actually greater than you might imagine. I would doubt that through microscopic study it would be found that these two different dies indeed have identical doubling - it's just close enough that it would be very hard to detect with the unaided eye...as was the position of the mintmark, which was made much more obvious as being different with the help of an overlay.
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thanks for all the replys and thanks you answering that coppercoins you for sure have the eye because I thought I had #1 DDO and you picked that up by looking at a pic that the mint mark was in a different position amazing!! co |
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I don't think it's new. I have to check but I think that I have two of these. It's still a very nice find. I checked and I have two. Here is one of them. I did overlays and they are identical. Bill  Edited by foundinrolls
05/20/2010 01:09 am
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