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Afternoon searching rolls - lots'o'pics - any error keepers or advice?

StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭✭✭
Went to the bank to get rolls today - no halves, so I settled for a mix of nickels and dimes.

The advice part is what do other roll searchers do with this type of stuff? Most of these things I find aren't worth much if any premium - do you keep them? Put them in 2x2's and hope some day a VAM-Like craze will hit modern crap? Spend them?

Anyhow, on with today's finds. Let me know if you see any keepers.

2006P Nickel die crack - looks like a power line running to Monticello:
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1999P nickel mint mark. Probably machine doubling, but nothing else on the obv is doubled, so just stuck out:
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1996P nickel filled mint mark.
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1995P nickel - What is going on here? Deteriorating die of some sort? It was stronger on the bottom, but the top had some lighter version of this too.
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1967 nickel - I don't know what's going on here, lamination, die crack, cud of some sort in areas. Thought it was neat - runs from left of Monticello to end of "states".
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2000P machine doubling? After I shot this one, I skipped the rest that I thought were strike/machine doubling. Had 1977, 1999P nickel and a 1985P dime as well.
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2006P Dime - I'll call it the Crying Roosevelt. There are some nice die chips/breaks forming on his eyebrow, by eyes (looks like tears) and one by his nose like a wart. I found 4 more sort of like this in the next set of pics, but no other "Crying" ones.
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4 other 2006P dimes sort of like the one above. The 5 of them were probably minted close to each other, neat to follow the die cracks progress in eyebrow, cheek, nose, and facial area.
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1962 Dime showing some strong doubling. Looked at CONECA's site and only saw a proof that sort of matched up (DDR-003 & 004 sort of). Some close-ups next pic
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Close-ups of a few areas on the '62 dime. Not sure if it's a real DDR or just machine doubling, but was neat either way - high areas on some of the doubling like a crack too - and in great shape for 45 years old image
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All I found today - fun stuff to me. Someday I'll find something really neat, until then the hunt is fun enough.

Jeff
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"You Suck Award" - February, 2015

Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101

Comments

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow.. that is one heck of a lot of looking... your eyes must be burning... neat finds though. Cheers, RickO
  • Nice... my kinda quiet day!! And just what are you takin pics with?? I gotta get a set-up like that!! (then I'd be lost for hours....)
  • Rob85635Rob85635 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭
    I wanted to ask the same question as AskRaq, what kinda setup you have? BEAUTIFUL pictures.

    Rob the Newbie
    Rob the Newbie
  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow.. that is one heck of a lot of looking... your eyes must be burning... neat finds though. Cheers, RickO

    Yes, a few hours of staring through a loupe does start to get the eyes burning.




    << <i>Nice... my kinda quiet day!! And just what are you takin pics with?? I gotta get a set-up like that!! (then I'd be lost for hours....) >>



    I use a Canon PowerShot A530. Most of the close-ups were through a Canon B04 Micrographics 29x lens. It was a nice quiet afternoon - I should be out metal detecting, but tweaked my back so I was die-crack & such detecting today image
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    "You Suck Award" - February, 2015

    Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TTT - Primarily interested in figuring out the '62 dime if anyone has an opinion...
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    "You Suck Award" - February, 2015

    Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    62 dime....machine doubling...no doubt.
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 12,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for taking the time to post your finds.

    I've just been putting anything out of the ordinary in 2 x 2s. Why not?
  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>62 dime....machine doubling...no doubt. >>



    Thanks - I'll have to go reread JT Stanton's "Determining Die Doubling from Other Forms of Doubling" again - apparently I failed my final exam image His article in PDF is here: JT Stanton Die Doubling Article.
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    "You Suck Award" - February, 2015

    Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Great photos! The 1995-P nickel is definitely a worn die. The 1967 nickel is interesting - very odd. It kind of looks like a lamination but the way it follows the curve of the rim is strange.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • you took some nice detailed photos; hope you had fun with this

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