Two Cent Guys - Educate me on this 1865 Doubled Die

FC57Coins

I found this two cent piece at tonight's auction, I know it's only about VG, and it's been cleaned - but I thought it was interesting because the date seems doubled. In the blow up you can see the 5 doubled over a second 5, and I think the 1 also shows some doubling. Can anyone tell me what this is?

Thanks!

Frank

Russ

<< <i>Can anyone tell me what this is? >>



It's an 1865 Two Cent Piece.

It's also the Fancy Five variety. Beyond that, I don't know.

Russ, NCNE

FC57Coins

Oh you're a lot of help

ccr

Sorry Frank, Russ was just giving his two cents. The doubling looks pretty neat.

FC57Coins

Thanks Jimbo


No one collects Two Centers?

ccr

I`ve been tring to nose around and so far nothing too " meaty ". Maybe just looking in the wrong places..... But so far, this is about the most tangable thing I`ve found so far. At NGCs` pop report, they show they have some DDO`s that where slabbed.


http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/poplookup-report.asp?PopSubCatID=19

Conder101

Looks like a repunched date (It is NOT a doubled die. A doubled die would not show on the date at all. Back then the date was added by hand so a doubling that occured in the creation of the would not on a feature added later.) I don't have my two cent references here at my computer, they are at home so I can't check for a reference number, but there are a lot of repunched dates in the two cent piece series.

coinguy1

Frank, Breen mentions the following possibilities (among others) for this date:

Fancy 5 partly repunched date; Fancy 5 double date; Fancy 5 blundered date; Fancy 5 triple date; Plain 5 double date.

One other variety he does not mention but which might be the one you're seeing: normal 5, normal date (but Frank has had too much to drink and is seeing double, if not triple)

FC57Coins

Ah - good deal - thanks guys I appreciate it

darktone

Frank, it looks like FS #002.7 in the cherry pickers book- 1865 fancy 5 Breen#2385; Leone 65F-2o1r with an interest rating of two stars. It says the second 1 is visible northwest of the primary 1, with the secondary 6 and 5 southwest. They have the value listed as $65 in XF. mike

dorkkarl

looks like 1 of many rpd's to me.

K S

coppercoins

If the doubling is all on the date, I definitely agree with Conder - it's an RPD, not a DDO - for the same reason we don't call doubled mintmarks DDOs and DDRs. They are RPMs.

FC57Coins

True enough - it is a repunched date - but it's still pretty cool - I had never seen one of these before on this denomination.