sgtled3533
Sr. Member
- Apr 12, 2016
- 335
- 1,004
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 1
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher gold bug pro/DP, fisher gold bug 2, Garrett ace 350
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
So this is a slightly different "find" for me, and here is the back story-
So I am 30 years old and my wife is 33. Her mom (my mom in law) is almost 60 and just lost her husband last week. We have been helping her with a lot of the funeral arrangements and costs of the unfortunate death of my father in law. We've also acquired some random things from their house to make some new room. One of the things we got was a small "piggy bank" my mother In law made in 1972 or 73 when she was a young teen. Sooo, I thought, "hmmm, maybe there's some older goodies in there!" So without breaking the handmade ceramic pig, I spent about 10 minutes carefully fishing out all the coins. There were about 500 coins packed in there and probably 98% pennies. There were a handful of nickels and dimes, but unfortunately NO silvers. However, I was very happy to see that this pig was probably filled up soon after it was completed. Almost every coin was 1973 or prior. Tons or beautiful 60s pennies and early 70s as well. Also scored about 15 nice wheat cents (mostly mid-50s). I started to realize after going through the hundreds of pennies that there was a big handful of 1969 pennies, so I thought, "well, I might as well look for the famous '69-S DD...I'd be stupid not to!" So the search began....
I had a total of (52) 1969 pennies. However, only 31 of them were from the San Fran Mint. Out came my loupe and my mini microscope to carefully look over each obverse and reverse of the coinage. Well, as I suspected, I didn't have a handful of DD 1969 S pennies on my hands! However, there was (1) that caught my eye! It was different from the rest, but wasn't obviously doubled....just some POSSIBLE minor error/doubling/whatever!!
*** I am posting this because I AM NOT AN EXPERT at all on doubling!! This is not my normal hunting, but I'm sure we all keep an eye out for these coins (just in case). I am asking the TNet community for some advice and facts of this topic and what I may have! So please keep the rude comments or the "that's not a '69-S DD penny" remarks outta here! Don't wanna hear it!!! Just want to know what this discrepancy is!! Thank you for reading my long post, and thanks in advance for any replies to my post! Happy hunting to all and be safe!
Sgt Kyle
The microscope pics are where I noticed the discrepancy. Compared to every other coin I looked at, this one had some differences on the (9) of the 19 and on the (6) in the 69 and also on the (s) mint mark.
So I am 30 years old and my wife is 33. Her mom (my mom in law) is almost 60 and just lost her husband last week. We have been helping her with a lot of the funeral arrangements and costs of the unfortunate death of my father in law. We've also acquired some random things from their house to make some new room. One of the things we got was a small "piggy bank" my mother In law made in 1972 or 73 when she was a young teen. Sooo, I thought, "hmmm, maybe there's some older goodies in there!" So without breaking the handmade ceramic pig, I spent about 10 minutes carefully fishing out all the coins. There were about 500 coins packed in there and probably 98% pennies. There were a handful of nickels and dimes, but unfortunately NO silvers. However, I was very happy to see that this pig was probably filled up soon after it was completed. Almost every coin was 1973 or prior. Tons or beautiful 60s pennies and early 70s as well. Also scored about 15 nice wheat cents (mostly mid-50s). I started to realize after going through the hundreds of pennies that there was a big handful of 1969 pennies, so I thought, "well, I might as well look for the famous '69-S DD...I'd be stupid not to!" So the search began....
I had a total of (52) 1969 pennies. However, only 31 of them were from the San Fran Mint. Out came my loupe and my mini microscope to carefully look over each obverse and reverse of the coinage. Well, as I suspected, I didn't have a handful of DD 1969 S pennies on my hands! However, there was (1) that caught my eye! It was different from the rest, but wasn't obviously doubled....just some POSSIBLE minor error/doubling/whatever!!
*** I am posting this because I AM NOT AN EXPERT at all on doubling!! This is not my normal hunting, but I'm sure we all keep an eye out for these coins (just in case). I am asking the TNet community for some advice and facts of this topic and what I may have! So please keep the rude comments or the "that's not a '69-S DD penny" remarks outta here! Don't wanna hear it!!! Just want to know what this discrepancy is!! Thank you for reading my long post, and thanks in advance for any replies to my post! Happy hunting to all and be safe!
Sgt Kyle
The microscope pics are where I noticed the discrepancy. Compared to every other coin I looked at, this one had some differences on the (9) of the 19 and on the (6) in the 69 and also on the (s) mint mark.
Upvote
1
HH
