2005 Oregon 25c DDRs

Russellhome · Veteran Member

Here are a few photos I took of my unpublished Oregon 25c doubled dies. Some I found and some I bought. The first and last ones shown are business strikes and the middle 3 are from mint sets (satin finish). The first is a P mint mark - the rest are Denver minted quarters. All of them would be considered "Extra Rocks" by ANACS - having a little doubling at the center of the design (at the lower-right tip of Wizard Island). Doubling is about the size of an average sized 'bar' on a Column doubled Lincoln cent.

So if you need a little break from searching cents - there is stuff to be found in 2005 quarters (both Minnesota and Oregon).

BankRolls · Advanced Member

Nice Finds Ken! Shocked

I also look at all the Oregon Quarters.
My wife and I have only found one worth keeping,
as most of what we get is from the Denver mint. Rolling Eyes

It is an extra limb variety.
Very few coins get past my triplet! LOL

Russellhome · Veteran Member

Bankrolls

Post a pic of the 'extra branches' OR D 25c if you can. I know there are at least 3 'Extra Branches' OR doubled dies from the P mint - but the only Denver ones I've seen or heard of are 'extra rocks' doubling from the island. I have a bunch of Denver rolls on the way from family out West -- and it always helps to know what to look for.

Thanks

Ken

Dick · Expert Member

Ken, I have a nephew in Philly, but I doubt I could get any assistance, (I haven't asked, so it is an unknown, maybe I should ask)! All that side of the family is "Rich bicthes", and don't have any dealings with "poor, white, trash"! They don't realize that the same blood that runs in my veins, also runs in theirs! Maybe a little American Indian, in theirs, but that is not my fault.
Dick

Russellhome · Veteran Member

Dick

I'm lucky in that I have a sister-in-law in Oregon who works at a bank. She recently had a customer bring in about 50 rolls of 'State Quarters' to cash in (mostly still in unopened bank rolls). My sister-in-law was not interested in them, but she knew I was in to searching them. So she picked them up for me. And with the USPS flat rate box - she can ship about 25 rolls for $8.10. So not a bad deal, getting lots of BU state quarters (mix states from 1999 thru 2004) for nearly face value. Plus - they are all Denver rolls - which makes them easy to unload on the East coast.

About 10 years ago, my sister-in-law had an older gentlman come into the bank with a jar of silver dimes - over 300 of them -- to cash in at face value. She told him he could get more for them if he went to a coin shop -- but he didn't care and took the $30 cash. My sis-in-law always cherry-picks the silver - so she quickly pulled $30 out of her purse (that is a pocket-book to you east coasters) and took possession of the little dime hoard. I went through them for her and it was quite a nice little find. Near as I could tell, the the dimes had been collected and stowed away around 1953, as there was nothing newer than 1953 and most of the 1946-1953 dimes were BU or AU. There were a few dozen Mercurys and even a worn Barber or two. And being from the far west, they were nearly all S mint coins (including lots of BU 1949s - 1953s dimes).

I'm sure this kind of thing happens at banks all the time. The best thing I ever found in circulation was a 1919s dime in VF condition - and that was 20 years ago. My sister-in-law finds goodies all the time. I guess I should have been a banker.

BankRolls · Advanced Member

Here you go Ken.

Russellhome · Veteran Member

Bankrolls

Thanks for posting the pic. I appreciate it. However, I hate to be the barer of bad news, but I don't think that it is an 'extra tree' DDR. There is something going on there - perhaps a strike through of some kind - but in my opinion, it is something other than a doubled die.

I did an overlay of your picture, cutting out the regular design of the branch in question and sized it to the appropriate scale. It appears to completely cover your branch - including the area you point to as doubled. If it were an 'extra tree' DDR, it should have been sticking out from under my overlay.

For example, the overlay below shows branches cut out of a regular OR 25c pasted over a 2005 P OR Die #1 DDR photo. The "extra tree" part of the DDR is in the field -- so it is not covered up by the regular branch overlay.

Keep looking. I'm sure there are many more Oregon DDs to be discovered.

BankRolls · Advanced Member

Thanks Ken!
Great Examples!
You really put some work into this.
What software do you use?
I have PSE 4.0, but haven't tried this.
Is it complicated?

It's All About The Search!!
I LOVE Doing this!
I take a 10X just about everywhere I go,
and if I find some oddity,
I bring it home to the 20X & better lighting. Cool

Russellhome · Veteran Member

I happen to use Corel Photo-Paint 11, but there are lots of graphics software programs (i.e. photoshop) that have the capabilities to do this. The trick is to have 2 photos of the same orientation and scale for the coin area you want to overlay. Then using a 'cut-out' feature or a freehand mask tool, just cut the part you want to overlay out of one photo and paste it on the other in the same position. I also changed the color tone of the pasted image - so it has some contrast. It is not too tricky - and takes only a few minutes once you get the hang of it.