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bgmanbgman Posts: 473 ✭✭
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and was wondering what the best way to search for double dies. Any tricks to keep from going cross-eyed? I hope I an find at least one nice DD. Is there certain dated bags where most have been found? This bag is dated APR 12, 1995.

Randy

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  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    Have any kids? If so, put them to work.

    Otherwise, do a hundred at a time a couple of times a day. The bag will go quickly.
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    When I do mine, I sit right next to the beermeister!!!LOL...Ken
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    That's what the Intel Microscope is really good for, just slide it under the scope and look on the screen.
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • anoldgoatanoldgoat Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭
    What ksteelheader said, hic.
    Alright! Who removed the cork from my lunch?

    W.C. Fields
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    Oh.Don`t strain your your eyes on all those Lincolns.
    Send them to me and I,ll sort through them for you.
    What a guy I am.Always trying to help a fellow forum member.image

    Seriously though,learn the PUPs for the `95 DD.(pick up points) (( the areas that would show doubling))

    Those are; the word LIBERTY,and the motto IN GOD WE TRUST.If there are DDs in there thats were to look
    on the coin.

    Good luck
  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    You'll either find a hundred or more or you'll find none. It's usually not a case where there will be one or a few coins struck by a certain die in a 5,000 count bag. As for looking for them - best thing to do is get one out, take a good look at it without magnification, remember what the doubling looks like, then start out in the bag. They are rather easy to spot without magnification if you know what they look like.

    I have been through three bags over time and haven't found a single one. All of the ones I found were in either BW rolls or change.

    Edited to say: I can confidently go through a bag of 5,000 coins looking for a naked eye doubled die like that in less than three days....shouldn't be a big deal.
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  • indianabyronindianabyron Posts: 1,023
    Coppercoins can go through a bag of 5000 in 3 days because he takes one out and tells his wife what they look like and she looks through them. image



    LOL just kidding. Last year I got one in change (1995)from a Hardee's and a 1960 silver dime to boot.
    Thanks for the work you did for me Chuck



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  • bgmanbgman Posts: 473 ✭✭
    I made it thru about one thousand of the coins, and no luck.image Hopefully good news will follow.

    Randy
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Most of the 95 DDO cents came from bags dated Feb 95.

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