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Additional Information

Variety: DDO

Mint: West Point

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The VARIETY ATTRIBUTIONS section is for the creation of a thread where the OP is inquiring about a specific variety or a type of variety.

A variety is some type of design change or die mishap that happens before the die is put into use.

Varieties are typically:

Doubled dies; RPMs (repunched mintmarks - 1989 or earlier). Other mintmark issues such as overmint marks (OMMs) and inverted mintmarks (IMMs). Design alterations such as the 1909 which has VDB and 1909 where VDB was removed; small and large dates. Installation mishaps or mismatched dies such as WAMs & CAMs, 1988 RDV-006. Traildies and wavysteps. The so called 1922 no or weak D (which is technically an error but treated as a variety). Coins with lathe lines.

This section is for LINCOLN CENTS

other denominations should be posted in Off Topic Discussion

Anything else is probably an error and should go into the ERROR ATTRIBUTIONS section.

Clashes (all types), CUDs, doubled strikes, machine doubling, off center struck coins are all error coins.

Variety Examples: is a sub-forum where known variety examples can be posted assuming it has been CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED and your images are good. The Variety Examples section is meant to aid collectors and is not to be used as an attribution section or a place to ask questions.

Die Varieties by Year: is similar to Variety Examples, but broken down into threads per year.

LINKS:

In the For the Lincoln Cent Beginner section, there are tutorials on Machine Doubling (MD); Classes of Doubled Dies (Class I Rotated Hub Doubling etc.); Small Dates vs. Large Dates and other useful threads.

Lincolncentresource.com
Coppercoins.com
Doubleddie.com
Traildies.com
Varietyvista.com
Conecaonline.org
Error-ref.com

If you need help with:

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