Could be new RPM for 1950-D 1c

Danester · Advanced Member

I found this one in a bag about 8-years ago. From my image one could argue it is not a D/D, but a die gouge (I use a scanner and can't control the light). However, when I use my Loupe under a good light and come in from different directions it sure looks like the remains of the left side of a wide punched "D" - serif at the bottom and a titled bar of the "D" going up to the lower tip of the "9". If this is a D/D wide repunch, then they probably caught if fairly soon and retired the obverse die limiting the number of pieces. "What say you"?

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

It appears to be a slight lamination problem that you are look at and not a wide repunched mint mark.

BJ Neff

Danester · Advanced Member

The area is struck-up, so a planchet lamination is not what we are seeing. It is either a wide MM punch or a die gouge. It's like the face on Mars - looks too man-made.

Dick · Expert Member

The MM was hand punched, then, so i wonder if it might have been "Monday", after a rough weekend....?

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

And because it is above the field, you discount lamination? I just zoomed in your picture that you posted and I still believe that it is a lamination peel with probably debris under it.

BJ Neff

eagames · Expert Member

It looks like a die chip blob or a lifted lamination.

Danester · Advanced Member

OK, I went out today and bought a replacement light for my 30x Microscope that I purchased from Bill Fivaz about 20-years ago. I was trying to use a 7x loupe and my scanner to find out what was going on with this coin. Sorry for the confusion

Anyway, I had a good look a it under 30x magnification and it is not a repunched MM, or a die chip/gouge. It looks to have been struck-though with 3 separate pieces of metal. #2 could be a lamination flap as pointed out, but looking at it from the left-of-date, it looks like a separate piece that merged well with the field to the right. #'s 1 & 2 definitely look like struck-through pieces of metal. Now I know what I have - struck-through and possibly some lamnation.

I need to buy a good microscope and new camera... what do you guy's now use - I need a few tips on this.

Thanks for all your input.

coppercoins · Site Admin

1. Die chip
2. Die crack.
3. Die crack continued.

That's what I see.

Die chips and cracks to the left of the mintmark seem common on 1950-1953 cents for some reason. There are plenty of them for 1952D.