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Found 1917 cent in rolls from Bank
buddygray
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I got bored yesterday and swapped some 2005 rolls for cents brought in by bank customers. I went thru $10 worth of cents and found a good deal of older dates from the 1960's, but the highlight was the 1917 I pulled out.
Can anyone tell me how to identify if its the doubled die or not?
As you can imagine, its fairly worn from being a circulation piece. Here are a few images...sorry they are not more detailed.
Can anyone tell me how to identify if its the doubled die or not?
As you can imagine, its fairly worn from being a circulation piece. Here are a few images...sorry they are not more detailed.
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Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
When the coins are as worn as this one, its hard to tell if dates and other markers are doubled. No sense letting apotentially valuable coin go unchecked if its worth something.
No Cherrypickers guide here, been meaning to buy it. I also wanted the 2nd edition if they ever get it in print.
If you're into varieties, you won't be able to put Cherrypickers' down. Volume 2 of the 4th edition may never come out, so go ahead and get volume 1 at least. I still use my 3rd edition a lot, and that has all denominations.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
Also not a DDO, but I like it a lot!
<< <i>I found this one loose in the Syracuse Hoard:
Also not a DDO, but I like it a lot!
So tell us what else you have pulled out of that huge haul???
Very nice 1917, congrats....
JRocco: I still don't know where to start with a description. It's a lot of coins--even with my having sold nearly all the dated rolls almost immediately. What I've found is probably mostly widgets--if I understand the technical, numismatic use of the term.
What's nice about having this many coins to get a handle on is that I can't remember from day to day (much less from week to week) what I've found. Thus, I've re-discovered a bunch of nice coins several times, which delights me each time I run across the things I'd previously found and forgotten about.
My current project is to check for DDOs about 1,000 1936s with a 17x loop. I have to admit that I'm slow getting to the task. I tried looking at a few dozen of them, and it's pretty tedious. Maybe if I found a good example early it'd provide some motivation. It's more fun to go back and look at some of the nicer teens and toners (and to watch my daughters try to hoist a canvas bag containing 5,000 unsorted 1920s).
I've promised myself NOT to make any lists until after I've decided what I'll keep (and then spend my time making a list of only those coins that I'll hang onto). As I find "batches" that I can bear to part with, I'll offer them on E-Bay or the B/S/T Forum. Problem is, I'm already kicking myself for having sold the dated rolls.