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Hello there! I noticied this by accident actually.. I was checking my list of US coins to list my oldest one in the "oldest US-coin topic".. Then I just clicked on a random picture of my coins in Excel, and I saw that the date was doubled and looks like most of the coin on one side is doubled.   Any help on this please? What would it do to the value of the coin, a.s.o? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Hard to say. I do believe the date is repunched, I see some areas that may be machine damage doubling, but I also think it may be a minor doubled die as well.
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Valued Member
Sweden
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Anyone else who has any input? :)
Looks a bit MD in some places, agreed. However I know my rate of being correct is about 30% when it's about coins.. >.<
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The date does appear to be repunched. I quickly looked at the varieties listed on NGC's variety plus section and there are a lot of different varieties, I don't have the time now to look through them all but can later.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i couldn't find the exact variety listed, not saying that it isn't there. It does appear to be a reverse of '67 because the star on the back points to the "E" in "STATES." It's a very bold repunching which makes it really cool looking.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm unfamiliar with varieties on this series--but if that's an RPD, interesting how it follows the doubling seen on the shield. Since the die was dated independently, I would expect to see separation somewhere in the digits if punched twice.  |
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I have a few questions.. What's an/a(?) RPD? "Quite few" in the Shield nickel series.. Meaning.. what exactly? A few as in.. a few eggs are boiling, or a few tenthousands :P |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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RPD= repunched date, from the era where dates were added to the dies by hand instead of being part of the hub design. Because of the addition by hand, some of the dates were punched twice which leads to doubling. I do not have any concrete numbers in front of me but I would guess that there are a few dozen RPD varieties for the entire Shield nickel series of 1866-1883, some of them rare while others are exceedingly common. Edited by biokemist6
01/06/2011 1:27 pm
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Okay thanks. Googled it as well.
I see, then I hope for the best then.. however I have no way of finding out. What's this NCG, DavidZerbato looked for varieties?
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http://www.shieldnickels.net/This page has many varieties listed. However no explanations or pictures.. So doesn't help me at all. I'd appreciate if someone could take time to identify this variety.. Thanks.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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yes. RPD.
otherwise, nothing
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RPD, what does that make to the value of the coin? And what about different varieties? :)
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United States
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RPD's are always collectible, you have to check the Shield nickel references for this one. However, collectible or not, except for some very dramatic ones [like the 11888866] they do not carry a big value. |
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Well I don't have any catalog for US, besides Krause World coins.. and I haven't found any webpage that actually explains the differences in the varieties..
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Posted 01/04/2011 09:46 am
