1979 Canadian Cent Doubling

hyf88

With a snowy day on tap here in New England and the wife and son napping, I finally have had a chance to scan an image of this coin. It's a 1979 Canadian cent with quite a bit of doubling going on around the date and desginer's initials. I did a search of the archives and found an old thread from 2006 asking about a similar coin, but the pictures had been removed due to it being so old. I figure it is mechanical doubling, but since I found the coin on the ground a few months back and don't know much about Canadian cents I figured I'd post it since it is inetresting if nothing else! Anyone know anything about doubling for this date?

1960NYGiants

It looks like mechanical doubling to me.

laurentyvan

Interesting post as I have always been fuzzy on mechanical vs true doubled die.

I googled and this definition popped up:

"The doubling comes from mistakes in the die hubbing process,
where more than one image is transferred from the hub to the coin die. "

I don't think I ever really understood that a true doubled die coin was struck on a die that actually had more
than one image on it...

lathmach

Just strike doubling.

Ray