Error Other | DDO and DDR on this 1956 P cent, or just another MD?

[Coin Wired]

This one actually looked normal until i zoomed in. Appears to have very strong doubling on every letter and the date on the obverse. On the reverse side E PLURIBUS UNUM looks to be doubled as well as the N in CENT. now I'm still getting used to MD v DD but this to me looks like the real deal, is it in your opinions or just MD?

[VAB2013]

This is a nice looking 1956P wheat cent! I'm not seeing any MD though, MD is flat and shelf like and it confuses us with a doubled die a lot. This wheat is probably making you think doubled die because this coin does not have as much circulation wear as we see sometimes on circulated wheats.

Typical doubled dies for 1956P include, doubled eyelid and there is one each doubled die obverse and reverse listed on coppercoins.com. We would need closer pics to determine if yours is one of those, but from what I can tell, it doesn't appear to be a doubled die.

Here is the link for the listed DDO and the listed DDR on coppercoins so you can compare your wheat to the photos

https://coppercoins.com/lincoln/diestate.php?date=1956&die_id=1956p1do001&die_state=lds

https://coppercoins.com/lincoln/diestate.php?date=1956&die_id=1956p1dr001&die_state=lds

[jfines69]

Best I can tell is die wear... The edges of the die wear faster than the rest of the die and become convex... This makes the coin look concave and the areas where the field meets up with the rim appear to slope up from the field to the rim... This effect elongates the devices outward toward the rims making them appear doubled!!!

[VAB2013]

Best I can tell is die wear... The edges of the die wear faster than the rest of the die and become convex... This makes the coin look concave and the areas where the field meets up with the rim appear to slope up from the field to the rim... This effect elongates the devices outward toward the rims making them appear doubled!!!

Thank you Jim, I didn't catch that and it's quite apparent on the reverse especially at EPU on Coin Wired's coin.

[Coin Wired]

Tried to get a little closer and i do see what you mean, but two spota i zoomed in on are odd. the RIBU on the reverse just looks so strange, it could be because the edge of the coin curves up into the rim. like you said this is in pretty good shape and I'm not used to seeing them like this. i zoomed in on the N in cents too, still kinda has a outline. i then took a negative and a few larger letters in ONE CENT appear to have this doubled outline that other letters dont.

[VAB2013]

We can wait for the wheat pros to chime in, but I think what you are seeing is die deterioration doubling. Here is a link to a tutorial with some really good photos of DDD. Seems like I saw DDD at LIB of Liberty on your coin also, going back to look again. (it does look like it on the IBER of Liberty)

http://www.lincolncentforum.com/die-deterioration-doubling-ddd/

[jcuve]

The obverse looks normal; the reveres (as noted previously) appears to be die wear. Die wear such as this is common on the outer radial regions of the devices on wheat cents. It's connected to the same doubling on the so call PMDDs (poor man's double dies) from the same era.

[jfines69]

Thanks for the follow up pics... Pics are still blurry but the negatives make it look like MD... It still appears to be die wear!!!