Some Fun with a Few RPDs

[IGWT]

Don't you think that making the same mistake in the same way for three years straight would be enough to get someone fired?

 

[MunkyMan95]

That first one's pretty dramatic. Very cool!

 

I guess QC back then was almost as bad as it is now

[rrantique]

Three mint employees in QC circa 1867

[dooly]

Don't you think that making the same mistake in the same way for three years straight would be enough to get someone fired?

 

 

Wow i am so Jealous with them Shields I want them

 

Pleese take pitt on a poor man from the UK and send them over the sea !!!!

[IGWT]

All these RPDs are pretty dramatic, with the '67 winning points for the doubling being visible on all digits, and the '69 gaining an edge for being triple punched. There are other examples of RPDs in the series that are even more dramatic (I'll post some another time, and maybe Howard will contribute a few), but I put these three together because the underdigits on each are mispunched in the same direction and with about the same spread. I think it makes an interesting group.

[SkyMan]

Don't you think that making the same mistake in the same way for three years straight would be enough to get someone fired?

 

Heck no, in America we re-elect them...

 

 

 

Nice coins/images BTW.

[bsshog40]

Those are pretty cool IGWT!

[skippy]

Due to the vast quantity of shield nickel varieties, it is feasible to put together many different sets of related RPDs and DDOs. Here are the 1866 "twins". These are probably the most dramatic RPDs in US numismatics.

 

 

 

All of these reflect the liberal rum rations at the mint.

 

[IGWT]

Thanks for adding your pictures, Howard. How about some contributions (from any series, not just Shields) by other members?

[halfpint]

Don't you think that making the same mistake in the same way for three years straight would be enough to get someone fired?

 

 

 

 

 

absotuvly!

 

 

 

[JRocco]

Great post and great pics.

Here is one of my favorites

1795/1795 Flowing hair half, 3 leaf variety

[IGWT]

1795/1795 Flowing hair half, 3 leaf variety . . . Did the Mint use double-digit punches during this period?

[RGT]

1845 Half Dime

 

[ldhair]

Cool stuff.

[WinstonWare]

1814/3 but I don’t have the photo skills to get that close yet - sorry

 

[JRocco]

1814/3 but I don’t have the photo skills to get that close yet - sorry

 

 

Here ya go Winstonware

But this is really an overdate not a Re-Punched Date (RPD)....

[skippy]

Okay, here's another set of shield nickel twins. These are a very special kind of RPD, because the initial punch used was for the wrong coin. Both of these shield nickels were originally punched with logotypes intended for a seated dime.

 

 

 

It doesn't get much weirder than these!

[rbrown4]

Hear is a 1819/8 Large Cent revently acquired from a fellow member on here, Zach

 

Rey

 

 

[bsshog40]

Nice cent there Rey!!

[IGWT]

Okay, here's another set of shield nickel twins. These are a very special kind of RPD, because the initial punch used was for the wrong coin. Both of these shield nickels were originally punched with logotypes intended for a seated dime.