Dbl Die errors

Weg

Any time I've seen reference to dbl dies it appears hundreds or thousands are made from a mint.
Has anyone seen where a single coin or maybe a couple may have jamed so it was struck twice?

Cameonut

I think you may be talking about two different things.

Doubled die errors relate to doubling on the dies. They are not struck twice but may appear so due the doubling in the die. Hundreds or thousands can easily be made.

Double struck errors are struck twice - the dies were probably just fine. These will be found in small quantities.

Does that make sense?

Rampage

Here are a couple of my favorite double struck coins. I have owned them for several years now.

Rampage

Here is one more...

Rampage

And the last one for show and tell today...

fugnchill

Unless your asking if anyone has found a double struck doubled die cent...Say a 1955 DDO double struck! Wouldn't that be nice. I've never seen one but always on the look out.

Lestrrr

19Lyds

I think the OP is using a generally accepted term from those commoner folks who know nothing of the minting process. Most of them think that the 55/55 Lincolns were struck twice when the reality of the situation would be, if they were, that the second strike would nearly wipe out the first strike.

As a side note, ALL proof coins are in fact "struck twice".

My favorite double struck coin is this 1971-S Ike:



There was almost zero rotation and just a smidge of an offset so that the coin appears to be machine ejection doubled but the existance of the top of an R at the top of the coin says otherwise.

tahoe98

.............here's some info on doubled dies, bill

Weg

After all those years, yep I'm one of those commoner folks. I've known about proofs double strike, but did not know there was a double die vs mechanical double strike. I always thought a double die was a double strike. Tahoe, thanks for the link. From that I'm assuming dies are cut with what could be called multiple passes. So to have a die which is doubled, one pass is cut then another pass is cut but the alignment is off compared to the previous. The end result is a die cut with two images. That explains so many doubles of a particular date coin.

Rampage, those make a nice collection, I like it. How in the world do they make it to the bank? Many of those could not fit into a roll.

Not long ago I opened a few Jefferson dollar rolls looking for a, ah shoot I'll call it a dual date. Not one found, but there was one coin that appears clipped at the edge. I never said anything about it to anyone because it looks like something that could have been done anywhere. I did keep it because I know it came out of an unopened mint roll. There's no way to prove the damage happened at the mint. It's to late for that, a TPG would have had to open the roll. So now I have my very own personal error coin.

Rampage

<< <i>Rampage, those make a nice collection, I like it. How in the world do they make it to the bank? Many of those could not fit into a roll. >>



Thanks,

I was very fortunate enough to be friends with an old dealer when I lived in south Florida back in 1999-2000. He had a source where he got these-along with hundred of others fresh from the bags to him. He was able to get them for a very cheap price and passed the savings on to me at the time. The dealer has since retired and I moved away anyway.