Error Other | 1944-S cent with legs?

[Guest]

I'm posting several pictures because I'd like to know why a change must have happened to the 1944-S dies. The first four are pictures of ordinary pennies - the 4's in the date are reasonably well shaped, and "we" has no extra features. The next several pictures are of a different 1944-S. This one has uprights (on the fours) that end in a wide, doubled base, and the left corners of the fours are (broken) doubled. The pictures are in different light to show the doubling. On this coin, the "we" has a doubled right upright. The thing is......I found 10 of these in a recent search of about 500 1940's wheats. They are all exactly the same. each exhibits the doubled "we", and the doubled 44's. Please let me know what you think. Thanks.

[coop]

The last 4 images show master die doubling. It affects the last two digits of the date. Check out page 125 in the "Looking through Cents" book by Charles Daughtrey for a full explination.

[Rubenthelincolnguy]

Looks like a DDO to me.... I saw a similar effect on a TDO tripled die obverse Kennedy silver clad half dollar, I will search, see if I can locate the pciture I saved somewhere. Nice coin!!

[hasfam]

Looks like a DDO to me....

It is a DDO. A Master Doubled Die. Which means the doubling occured on the either on the Master Hub when the design was transfered from the galvano or the Master Die when the image was squeezed on it from the Master Hub and subsequently transfered on to the working hubs and on to the working dies, which means ALL the coins struck by these working dies will have this doubling. Not worth a premium as every coin will have this anomoly.

[Rubenthelincolnguy]

GREAT!!! double hurray!!!! 1 because I did hit the spot! and another one for finding it!!!

Great finding!!!!

[mustbebob]

GREAT!!! double hurray!!!! 1 because I did hit the spot! and another one for finding it!!!

Great finding!!!!

Not to burst your bubble Ruben, but this doubling is on almost all 1944 cents. If you don't find it, then that is a problem. There were 2 billion 1944 P/D/S cents minted.
Any time we talk about Master Die Doubling (and there are many dates with it), there is normally no premium associated with it due to the numbers of them out there.

[yonabaru]

I appreciate the input, but still have questions. I can see the doubling you're talking about, which includes the S mintmark, BUT, what about the doubling on "WE" ? The reason I included the pictures of the other two coins is to show what the ordinary 1944-S looks like. As to all of the 44-S coins being the same, these were the only ones I found, "though I looked through hundreds of 44-S's (also D's and P's). One last....why are the 4's broken at the left hand corners? Bill.

[yonabaru]

Thank you for your patience, coop. I went online, saw the pictures in the book, and all was explained. I just ordered the book. Bill.