1978 Cent Double 978 Multiple Errors

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thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 9:13 pm Nice little roll find. Edited by thatcanuckyguy 03/29/2011 4:49 pm Report this Post to the Staff

commoncents13 Valued Member Canada 248 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 9:41 pm Double what? IMO, looks like a shadow! Surely you can do a better scan with your supper scanner! Or are you just testing us? Edited by commoncents13 03/28/2011 9:43 pm Report this Post to the Staff
thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 9:45 pm NOpe, thats how deep the doubling is on this coin. I go over them first with a magnifying glass and when something catches my eye I put it in the scanner. Pretty deep for doubling date :) Report this Post to the Staff
commoncents13 Valued Member Canada 248 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 9:54 pm Well for me, if I'm to agree with you! ---I would like to see another angle on that coin because it looks like a shadow! ---I don't see the doubling where I would expect to see it, if not a shadow! IMO Report this Post to the Staff
thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 10:13 pm Here are 2 different angle with the last one on a full 90 deg. Notice how the doubling almost wraps around the '8'. Untouched lighting and contrast, scanned at 3200dpi. Report this Post to the Staff
west- canuk Valued Member Canada 497 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 11:00 pm That's interesting, I guess these aren't as common a find as 1979 hub dbl ? Report this Post to the Staff
thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 11:08 pm I have a few 1979 dubs and 1976 dub 6's, and this is the first I have found in the 1978 cent. I have searched 1000's of these. They are not listed as far as I know and this cent is quite extreme from the double dates I have seen so far. The doubling on the '8' comes up around the bottom and sort of tails up the other side of the '8'. There is no other doubling on the coin as far as I can tell. Report this Post to the Staff
commoncents13 Valued Member Canada 248 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 12:43 am If I didn't know any better I'd say it's the same scan just rotated! Ha! Ha! ---Thanks! OK looks double, but there is something that is distracting about it, and is hard to shake off, maybe its the sort of like I don't know? (braised) look, it's just like looking through scathed plastic, look between the 7&8, do you see it? Report this Post to the Staff
thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 01:14 am Yup I see that and there is also a metal line from the 9 going up to the leaf. Lot of weird things going on with this one. That pattern between the 7 and 8 is mottled and raised. I'm going to take it to a dealer for the sake of it and see what they say under a microscope. Report this Post to the Staff
commoncents13 Valued Member Canada 248 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 01:33 am Oh ya! I see that too! Thought it a scratch, thinking so so coin condition! ---Maybe got hung for being weird? ---Do I see something else in the top left 10 o'clock on topic picture. Could that be a Cud? extra metal whatever! or PMD? ---Look and let us see that! Report this Post to the Staff
thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 12:52 pm I noticed it at first then I tried to recreate it with different scanning angles hoping it was a dropped letter or nice die chip :) I'm going to do some more looking today at this coin take some close up camera shots and see what I get, then off to the dealer and see what he thinks. I paid a cent for it so hey :) Report this Post to the Staff
thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 4:01 pm This is the weirdest coin I have found. The '8' is also connected to the branch and the top bud also has a metal line coming out of it. The '9' is hanging for sure and the denticles starting at the side of the '1' in the date up to around the '1 C' are top and bottom shifted, I will post photos of that here in a few as well. Report this Post to the Staff
thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 4:55 pm Here is 2 different scan angels of the E in Cent that is connected to the leaf beneath it... Here is a scan of the '9' in the date with extra metal... There also seems to be a huge clash leading from the second smaller 'bud' leading up to the leaf. I am just trying to find the right lighting angles and I will have scanned as well. Report this Post to the Staff
commoncents13 Valued Member Canada 248 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 6:24 pm That's one messed up coin! Result of one messed up Die! Report this Post to the Staff
thatcanuckyguy Valued Member Canada 166 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 6:34 pm Metal triangles between denticles on the left side. Report this Post to the Staff
commoncents13 Valued Member Canada 248 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 6:41 pm Looks like a heavy press so it squeezzzed! Report this Post to the Staff
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