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You were right about it being MD. That is a classic case of MD.
Notice on the A, it took a step into the regular design so that side of the A got thin.
When you see a step into the normal then it's MD, if it was a doubled die it is added to the normal part.
People say the total size stays the same with MD, it's sort of true but the flattening can make it a little bigger but still it's not added to it like a doubled die.Comment
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thanks, GrumpyEd. Lol----that means am getting a little bit better.Comment
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Nice looking MD!!!Jim
(A.K.A. Elmer Fudd)
Be verwy verwy quiet... I'm hunting coins!!! Good Hunting!!!
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JF, looks like am moving up in the world! LOL
But I just found these 2 Formative Years 2009 coins. Just 10 minutes ago. I think there is definitely something there. Not rags to riches, but hey, considering it's my first 'something' find, it's worth something. The pics are two separate coins.
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Lo and behold. ANother one. Same roll. (the first one was in the same box, different roll. Maybe someone didn't like formative years. (reckon they just didn't look close); because that whole box, so many crappy pennies, many full of glue or this molasses looking sticky stuff. Awful. But, out of all that, at least something emerged)
Here is the third doubled die 2009.
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Congrats mindtab! Those are really nice looking Formative Years DDR's! That is amazing to find all three of them in the same box! You may want to start a new thread for each one and compare them to the listed ones and look for markers too! Way to go!
Here are links to:
Coppercoins
Wexler
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Thank you, Viv. Yay! My first doubled die's of anything. Considering the whole box was so awful, I even threw some of them away they looked so bad; and then there were like ten of them stuck together (since so many had glue on them), I threw them away too. But I kept on going. Luckily, these 3 survived the molasses monster. Looks like one of them is WDDR-002. I definitely look for markers. A lot of times they help you more than what you are trying to find 'if it is or it isn't'; markers also help me spot things quicker and I go looking further into the coin.Comment
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Congrats on your finds!
LOL, I never toss cents, even the worst rotten ones I'll spend. Soak them to get the goo off and spend them. Someday you can buy a coin with what you saved. I just spent a rotten zincoln, it had a hunk missing, the obv was gone but the rev still had the memorial. Spent it, let them go back to the fed and replaced.Comment
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Yeah, even the ones that have something sticky on them, I run them under water in the sink to get the sticky off. I figure... something worse than water has already happened to them and that way at least I can see what they are. Gets the sticky off my hands at the same time
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grumpyed, I don't know about the pennies making it back to the fed; for them to become so corroded and beat up, no one has yet turned them in. They'll just continue circulating (regardless of condition) till they pulverize. Personally, I barely want to handle them even with cotton gloves. Am sure people don't want to stick those pennies in their wallets, nor a cashier to handle them with bare hands.Comment
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Let's see what Ed has to say... but I had a similar thing happen with the CWR's that looked like they came from a goldfish pond. I took them back to the bank and my teller friend looked at the ends of the rolls and said "ewwww"! The branch manager happened to be standing there and she asked him... what do I do with these? Well, I left. But days later I got one of those rolls back in a group of other customer rolls. So they didn't do anything but put them right back into circulation!Comment
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Viv, I agree. I see this as a two part problem. The bank gets rolls from businesses or customers; they don't open all of them, so many rolls go right back out without the bank knowing what's in them. But if the bank opens any, then they should remove the bad pennies and put them in a 'turn-in bag' or something. The same goes for the cashiers. And for the individual, well, the only thing one can do (and stop perpertuating the circulation ---since no one seems to stop it), is to put them in the garbage can. Problem solved.
And looking at individuals --what is the thing about keeping 1 bad penny? Jeez, it's not going to break their bank, but it will stop this one at a time. It's just too many horrific pennies out there. Even if I throw out 100 pennies, it's still 1$ out of my life and my hands can breathe easier. If everyone did that, then looking at a roll of pennies would be to actually look at pennies that are worth looking at,...be it that they have any varities or not. But the main thing is---for the individual to be able to turn in those corroded pennies to the bank (which I don't know how many would take the time to do so), and for the bank to put them out of circulation by turning them in to the fed. Period. (like your situation above)
But that would only happen if the banks are mandated to do so. So the fed sees that people don't want pennies anymore, for even this reason, they should have the banks turn in the bad ones.Last edited by mindtab; 03-15-2019, 09:52 AM.Comment
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Here's a link to the Federal Mutilated Currency and Bent or Partial Coin procedure. I guess the general public can do this, as well as banks. I'm a penny pincher of sorts so it would bug me to just throw a "penny" into the trash can... as many as we go through it would add up over the course of a year. Another article "Americans throw away $62 million a year by tossing coins in the trash" (actually explained that it's mostly from vacuuming cars and sofas, nooks and crannies)!Comment
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