How bout a 66 p DDR. ? U shows line

[Guest]

This 66P shows a line in the upright of the U on the reverse. Ill just keep throwing them back if not. This one appears to be turning the corner on color.

[simonm]

I think this one has some damage on the letters giving the appearance of a split. Keep up the hunt!

[willbrooks]

I am not drinking the Kool-Aid on this one either. Here is an example photographed by Bob Piazza from the coppercoins.com website of a typical sixties DDR.
Notice the notching on the letters. Notice the spread. I believe you would be well-served to spend some more time studying what doubled dies really look like before you continue your searching. Familiarize yourself with the 9 different classes of Doubled Dies, what the pick-up points are for each class, and which classes are typical of which dates. This should help you immensely with identification. Good luck!

[jcuve]

There is not extra thickness or a notch. Separation lines, even faint ones, should be on devices that are a little wider or taller. The example Will shows, has devices that are taller from a class II spread. What you are looking at, would have had a hypothetical rotated or pivoted spread. The devices should have been wider, but are not. All of the 1970s I showed in the 1970 thread, have extra thickness (e.g. they are wider or sometimes taller), and usually I found a notch or two.

Good years to search: 1962 & 1964. Both have a multitude of class II doubled dies.

[bowler]

thanks

thank you guys for the input...im trying to get this stuff down and quit embarassing myself on here...i appreciate yall putting up with these posts...i have a huge collection of cents and it is gonna take some time to get through them..I just dont want to throw back anything good...

[bowler]

and thanks for the photos to reference..they are very helpful..

[Maineman750]

A real good idea is to put questionable stuff back for when you become a little more educated. I don't want to discourage your posts, but if you feel embarassed, that's one idea.

[willbrooks]

A real good idea is to put questionable stuff back for when you become a little more educated. I don't want to discourage your posts, but if you feel embarassed, that's one idea.

Goddard, please don't feel embarrassed. I used to put a lot of coins into flips with silly labels like, "blue doubling over letters," and "unusual ridge in bay 3, " etc. I found out later, through study via books, the internet, the forum search engine, reading the sticky posts that Jason and others spent lots of time making, and so on, what these things really were. Asking questions is imperative to the learning process, but taking the time to research and study on your own also will facilitate and expedite the learning process ten-fold! We have ALL asked about worthless forms of doubling, but it gets frustrating for some of the respondents when there seems to be post after post of the same thing with no seeming progress from the poster. Use the search engine and the library of info from the home page here. It is truly a stunning warehouse of information. Best wishes and good luck in your searches. I know I still have only scratched the surface myself.

[bowler]

I must admit, I to probably have to many flips listed with silly stuff on them....I have been doing reading and looking at research on sites like ccions and variety vista...jasons site error-variety site...
Im trying to figure out the md vs.the dd.. i know dd will be raised even with the character. and md is flat and shellf like...but the difference can be ever so slightly...I just over analyze the damn things to much....i keep hunting....

[jcuve]

Go to here: http://briansvarietycoins.com/shop/cat/1 and buy a few cheap doubled dies. Aim for some that are class V, IV or II if the doubling is clear. Don't buy any that are class VI or any doubled eyelids (at least not yet). Compare them in hand to MD examples. You will find that in most cases, as much as it is discouraging, MD is easier to see in person.

[mustbebob]

I think just about anyone who is a collector started with the flips or 2 X 2s annotated with some pretty outrageous stuff. I did it a lot! I have also kept a lot of those because as others have noted, you will be surprised at how impressionable you were about possible errors/varieties before you studied, asked questions, and researched varieties. You really feel great when you realize how far along you have come versus when you first started. Hang in there.
By the way, the photos like Will posted are always available on coppercoins, and some other printed matter. Study them. They all list the class doubled die they are. Get to know the classes, and you can quickly isolate any possible doubled dies by class. That option is another one that is available in the coppercoins search.