Mercury Dime 1940/1/2/2 D with numerous errors

[dinwiddie-migration]

I originally thought this was the 1942/1 D oerdate and from what I can see it appears to be much more than that . I scanned the image again last night and I found numerous things wrong with it.

1. The bottom of the neck has "phantom O's also to the left of the 1 in the date , also present in front of the nose.

2. Under the chin the designers initials .

3. Mid left field an E lying on it's backside facing North.

4. The 2 of the Date appears to show either a 9 or a 0 , 1, and a 2 stamped twice.

 

5 . The 4 looks as if it's been struck 3 times.

6. The designers initials have been restruck.

7. All of the letters in Liberty have been doubled.

8. There is a piece of wire across IGWT.

9. The back has been double struck as well.

 

[McKinley-migration]

interesting... i don't see anything, but my eyes are closed. send it in if you think you've got something hott.. the $20 investment may pay off

[dinwiddie-migration]

I am going to very soon. I emailed John Bordner here's what he said...

 

I just compared my photos to yours and they appear to

match. I'm almost sure that you have the normal

1942/1-D overdate with some mechanical doubling. The

reason I asked about the RPM is because the overdate

also is a repunched mintmaek. I have it listed as

WDDO-001 for the doubled die and WRPM-004 for the RPM.

CONECA has it listed as 1-O-III and RPM#4,

Cherrypickers has it as FS#10.8 and Breen list it as

BR#3678.

 

It is a class III doubled die from a 1941 die rehubbed

with a 1942 die. There should also be some doubling

on IGWT.

 

John