Where to send an error coin if? Is this a dd?

rikker

Say you have a coin you think is a doubled die ,or a new variety. Where do you send it? I know people have said Anacs. But what I am wondering is, is there a place to send an error coin where they will give it an attribution, or mark on the slab the type of error. Or do you have to send it to coneca get an attribution and then send it to Anacs and pay the 5 bucks for their attribution service? If you have a minute could you look at this 1959 quarter? The motto looked funny to me and the reverse the last letters of dollar. What if anything would you do with this coin? It is a pretty coin, the scan don't show it though. And yes I know the scans suck. scroll down to see the reverse. Thanks Motto and the reverse below it.

KlectorKid

The R looks very doubled cant answer your question though.. nice morgan 2

TomB

You can try sending the coin to CONECA for attribution if it is a new variety. If it is, they will give you credit for finding it and you might get ANACS to slab it with the attribution. I must advise you, however, that the Washington series is notorious for machine doubling in the motto (IGWT) and also on the reverse. If the serifs of the letters are not separated then I would bet that it is not a variety, rather, it is machine doubling. Good luck.

coppercoins

The big problem with any of those services is that they charge a fee just to look at the coin...regardless of whether the coin is or isn't a die variety. So if you send them machine doubling, you're out your money regardless on a coin that has no more value than the date, mint, and grade.

I am trying to change this way of doing things, and over the next ten to fifteen years that will happen. My site is dedicated to giving the information to those who want to use it, not in charging a coin to coin attribution fee. I intend on expanding the site to eventually include all US series of coins, with a different attribution expert for each different series of coins.

Until that time, CONECA is about the best bet.

koynekwest

I'm assuming that this is a proof-if so, looks like you might have the PR4-O-IV+VIII or PR WDDO-001. If you can look at a copy of the Wexler-Flynn book on Washington 25c d dies you should be able to confirm it, but many have been found since the book was written and the values are a little high.

Bikingnut

I've got a 1966 that looks a lot like that. Unfortunately I don't have a quality camera to get a close up like that.

rikker

Thank you all for the help?

richbeat

You're right, scans don't always show things good enough. When I looked at it the doubling seemed to be flat, but it's really hard to tell. If it's proof it might be the one koynekwest mentions. Someone here posted a really good scan of machine doubling awhile back, the best I've ever seen. The picture was taken almost edge on and really showed the flatness without a doubt. What would be really cool would be to have photos of two coins taken edge on and displayed side by side, one showing machine doubling and one showing a true doubled die.