A nice Licoln proof find

sadysta1

I want through dealers junk box and I bought this Lincoln proof, but when I took a closer look at home - bingo it's a double or triple die. A cool find for 75 cents.

Coppernicus

Nice find...maybe. Is there another example of this doubling? Could it just be a die shift and not a true doubling?

Coppernicus

commoncents

It looks good to me. What year is it ?

sadysta1

it's 1970-S and oppernicus there is a small vally that separates the doubling

coppercoins

That's likely the real thing...there is a tripled die obverse 1970S proof listed by Wexler. I've never seen one of the coins before, though.

airplanenut

Sandy,

You're getting good at finding double die Lincolns!

cladking

Very nice. Does "IGWT" have much doubling?

coppercoins

<< <i>Very nice. Does "IGWT" have much doubling? >>



If this tripled die is the one I have notes on, it is not so much the spread that's noticeable, it's the fact that there are two small ridge gaps on most of the devices on the obverse indicating three slightly rotated hubbings. The coin in a 5X loupe would more or less display "thick" letters (in the motto, horizontally thick), but with 16X or better, the three separate hubbings would come clear.