Got a 36 wheatie at Autozone today

fishcooker

It's not BU-RD.....

Rampage

Is it a Doubled Die Obverse???

fishcooker

A DDO? If it's Lincoln's ear, then we'll never know!

My best shot is that it's an ultra-rare 1986 wheatie.

coppercoins

If it's in lower than VF grade, it would hardly be worth the effort of looking, but there are at last a half dozen different doubled die obverses for 1936P cents, and at least a dozen different doubled die reverses. I have a friend who has spent years looking through circ wheats and has hundreds of copies of different 1936P doubled die reverses.

Point is, most people only learn of the ones listed in the Red Book, and that's simply not the case. With fewer than a dozen different die varieties listed in the Red Book, it doesn't even cover a significant percentage of what's actually known, nearly 2,500 different for that one series alone.

At any rate, a 1936 cent in circulation is not completely unheard of, but is quite scarce these days. Nice pull!

fishcooker

Thanks C.D., that makes it even more interesting. I think it's down below 10 on the grading scale. Maybe a 4.