Stuck in the 70's

Teryble · Veteran Member

Hey wavy & all,
This is really a brilliant 79 almost looks gold! First question is there trails coming off of CEN in cen? Some of the front& back looks DD to me Rolling Eyes

Or is the light just playing tricks w/ me?
Thanks, Tery

Dick · Expert Member

Tery, you need to diffuse the light. The glare hides much of what you are trying to show. IMHO, it looks like you have a DDO, from the "liberty" letter thickness. I don't see any trails.
Dick

eagames · Expert Member

I don't see any trails either, are you sure the coin wasn't polished or something?

Smile

coop · Expert Member

Looks like it has been plated. Trails are usually found on the single squeeze Cents, but not always Kurt found on old one a while back.

Teryble · Veteran Member

Thanks all, this is exactly the way I found it, haven't even cleaned it. I scanned it but it still does not show the brilliance. Also a couple arrows where I thought might be trails? What & why would this be plated & with what? T'morow I'll mess around w/ the lighting, being lazy this beautiful sunny Florida afternoon, going to float around the pool, only thing missing is a marguerita! Cool

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

Hi Tery - I can see what yoiu are talking about, however, that is an unusual place for trails to start and they just do not look like they are trails.

As to a DDO, there does seem to be a slight extra thickness to the date, but then again, it would need an in hand inspection to determine if it is a doubled die.

BJ Neff

Teryble · Veteran Member

Thanks wavy, the "trails" seem to due to (at least to my untrained eye) like almost a sliding of the letters affect? There are no DDO's for this year on this site does anyone know if there are any at all? It might be worth sending in, do ya think?
Thanks again!
Teryble

coppercoins · Site Admin

Nothing is right about the surface of that coin. It has either been polished to death or it's been plated.

Teryble · Veteran Member

Guess that is a big fat no, chuck? As I previously asked because yes I am clueless. Why would a penny be polished or plated & plated with what?
Sorry so late in responding just returned from a my husband's father funeral in Cleveland. Then the day after he died they found his cousin (girl, graduate from Julliard) murdered, so it ended up being a double & almost triple after driving like 14 hours a day with my husband.......Only joking....Not! Wink

Thanks for enlightenment!
T

coop · Expert Member

It could have been an early project of a beginning plater (SP) working on his technique? I have a 1995 Cent that is gold plated. It was just an advertising ploy from a local shop. They would give them out to their customers. The had many in a container to go along with a business card.
People polish coins to make them appear to be uncirculated. But to a real collection the wear gives them away.
So what ever the process, they try to make them look like a BU coin when they weren't before they attempted to make them look that way.

eagames · Expert Member

Tery,

You're paying attention so you're noticing things that are there that if you didn't look close you wouldn't find.
(that's a good sign that you will find goodies)

It's also statistics, billions of cents in the hands of millions of people. They polish, plate, smash, whatever so if you look at enought you find one's that had strange stuff done to them. I can't say for certain but your cent was either polished or plated or varnished.
It's like the thin cents that people used acid on. They sit in a drawer then someday someone spends them and if you're looking you'll wonder "why did they do this?"