1968 DDR Find - In my cent box for 25 Years

Russellhome

I was told by a member of this board that variety hunting can get addictive, particularly after you make a nice find or two. He was right. I found some DDO nickels in the 2005 nickel sets and caught the bug.

I decided to go through about 35 rolls of cents I've had in a box since I was teen (Mostly BU rolls from 1944 to the late 70's). I found some nice 1962 P DDRs - not huge ones, but nice. But tonight I had my first major cent find - a 1968 D DDR. It was in a mixed roll of 60's and 70's BU cents (so I only found 1). It has nice strong doubling on all of the upper letters on the reverse. The only bummer is that the obverse has a few scratches that will knock an MS65 coin down to the MS62 range. Still, a decent discovery in a box of coins I've had for over 25 years. I'm almost done searching the box of rolls and now I'm thinking about how to get more rolls to search. I definitly got the bug.

jonesy

Nice!!

lloydmincy

I'm still looking - I dont see a thing.

Russellhome

Just about every letter in the photo has little notches at the top and bottom corners. See the split serif on the lower tip of the S. The entire design is shifted down and over just a bit. The FG initinals has clear doubling in the F (and in the G too, but it does not show well in the photo).

It is not the 1955 DDO - but you don't need a microsope to see it either. Coppercoins.com lists this one at $400 for MS65 and $100 in AU. As far as doubled die Lincoln cents go, this is a pretty major one.

But if you really want to see clear doubling -- look at this...



It looks pretty cool -- but the trouble is, this is not from a doubled die. I am 99% sure it is mechanical doubling damage (MDD) that occured when the coin was struck. Most "double dies" on eBay are just common MDD.