How do I request for a new variety?

[SPeck95512]

I have been looking VERY closely at my proof Rosy dimes and I think I've found a variety that has yet to be discovered. The only way that I can think of to get it verified and recognized is to get in touch w/ Messers Stanton and/or Fivas. Does anyone know how I go about doing this?

 

Steven

[cpm9ball]

Have you checked it against the CONECA listings yet?

 

http://hermes.csd.net/~coneca/

 

It will be pretty hard to get in touch with JT. I believe his health has been a recurrent problem the past few years.

 

Chris

[SPeck95512]

Just checked their master listing and several aren't there. I'm a proof Rosey collector. I've got two '74-S dimes with DDO characteristics and I would like to see if they're true, verifyable, honest-to-god Doubled dies and not double strikes.

 

I would take pictures and post them but it's really difficult to get something that small to come out.

[cpm9ball]

Yeah, with something that small, you need a camera with a macro lens or a stereomicroscope with a camera attachment.

 

As a general rule, machine doubling (aka, mechanical doubling or strike doubling) will appear to be flat and shelf-like. True hub doubling will often appear rounded like the surface of the device and letters and numbers will often have split serifs.

 

We'd really need good photos to be sure.

 

Chris

[SPeck95512]

I'm buying a cheap USB microscope to try to take pictures of it, so we'll see if I can get good enough images in a couple of days.

[physics-fan3.14]

You need to contact James Wiles (you can find his data at the CONECA website). He attributes all 20th century varieties for them, and if it is significant enough he will add it to their database (and credit your discovery). I have done this with a couple of my Franklins, and was lucky enough to have discovered a new variety.

[SPeck95512]

Thank You!

[e1cnr]

the problem with proofs is they are all double struck - many times small machine doubling or shifting occurs

 

 

the only proof varieties of real value are ones seen with naked eye

 

back to your question - you need to start with CONECA

 

pics would be helpful, but may not be possible for you

[Mr.Mcknowitall]

the problem with proofs is they are all double struck - many times small machine doubling or shifting occurs

 

 

the only proof varieties of real value are ones seen with naked eye

 

back to your question - you need to start with CONECA

 

pics would be helpful, but may not be possible for you

 

I wonder if "real value" trumpws numismatic interest and pursuit of knowledge?

 

Respectfully,

John Curlis

[physics-fan3.14]

the problem with proofs is they are all double struck - many times small machine doubling or shifting occurs

 

 

the only proof varieties of real value are ones seen with naked eye

 

back to your question - you need to start with CONECA

 

pics would be helpful, but may not be possible for you

 

I wonder if "real value" trumpws numismatic interest and pursuit of knowledge?

 

Respectfully,

John Curlis

 

John, it depends on what your goals are. For me, no amount of money could part me with my discovery DDR. Many people would feel differently.

[SPeck95512]

I would be immensely pleased if my DDO proof is a true variety. I can have my small stamp on the numismatic world

[messydesk]

If there's the same doubling on both the mint mark and the date, it's strike doubling. In 1974 (and in general before roughly 1989, I think) the mint mark was added to the die after the die was already hubbed. Technically, you could have a RPM that matched the die doubling, but I've never heard of this actually happening.