Washington Quarter 1932-D/D

I have a nice 1932-D quarter and was taking a closer look at it tonight and noticed that it looks to possibly be a D/D variety. It definitely looks to be doubled somehow.

I'd like to you guys to take a look at the pictures and see it you can provide any info on this coin. Is it a popular variety? Does it help the value any?

Thanks guys.

 

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Looks like MD, but a little tough to tell.

 

I do not see a doubled mint mark listed in my copy of the Cheerypickers Guide.

 

It's definitely there and quite prominent. I am using an iPhone with that magnetic macro lens and through a loop to try and capture it.

I can see it plain as day through my loop and it looks to be doubled a good bit.

Does anyone have a variety book on the Washington series?

It's definitely been examined by NGC and slabbed as an authentic 1932-D but they will not attribute it without paying and asking for it.

I'll try the NGC submittal guide as they would list it if they know about it and attribute them.

 

There is no doubt that it is doubled. However, the flat, shelf-like nature of the doubling is not consistent with a repunched mintmark. I would venture that it is either mechanical doubling or die deterioration doubling.

 

Oh I'm sorry, I'm still not 100% on the different types of doubling and may have mistakenly called it wrong.

I guess my main concern is it worth the money to send it for regrading with attribution? Is it a more desirable coin since it has this 'feature'

 

My opinion would be no, since it is most likely not a repunched mintmark. Anomalies such as mechanical doubling and die deteration doubling are common and not worth a premium. I'd say keep it in the current holder and save your money.

 

I will see what D/D 1932 has. Most are M.D but about 1-10 are Rpm.
I just hope I can find the link.

 

I'm not a variety collector and I generally don't pay much attention to mint marks, etc., except when they are key date coins.

IIRC, isn't the mint mark on a 32-D supposed to sit in a "depression" in the field? Most 32-Ds that I know seem to have this characteristic, even in higher grades.

Does the D/D not sit in that same depression?

 

Their 1 1932-D Rpm #1 I have on PDF file that I can not link. But if you look at a 1963-D Rpm#1 they look the same. D North/East of MM,if that will help.

 

It's definitely doubled to the north. I will have to check again to see if it flows east any. I think it does tho

Thanks for looking that up for me jello.

 

No big thing!!! hex retired almost Free web, I only seen 1 on Tel-A-Trade back ???That what it looked like.Most just want the coin real+MS-67+

 

Mines an AU-53 I think. So it's a decent coin but I was wondering if that variety was recognized or if it added any value.

 

For a 1932-D Washington, I doubt that ANY type of variety would add value to the coin.

 

Why's that.

To me if you have 436,800 coins and only a portion of them exhibit this characteristic, AND collectors seem to like it, well then I could see a premium to the coin.

My personal opinion is that any decent variety to a key date coin should add value to the coin. You have a rare coin, as-is, and on top of that youve now found where this particular anomaly may not be common. As long as it is deemed an actual variety and the collectors pay any interest to it, then it should command some sort of premium. I would think anyway.

Curious as to why you say it shouldnt? Because its already an expensive key date coin?

 

Simple there are more of the coins than there are collectors. Plus the fact that there not a slot for it in the registry sets that I know of.

 

Im glad you just brought up registry sets, i just entered my quarters in it and noticed there werent slots for Heavy and Light mottos but there was a 50 D/S and a 50 S/D. what gives with that?

You also dont think the deal with more coins than collectors may have to do with folks not knowing much about this variety or anomaly?

 

The relative popularity of the coin and its low published mintage numbers will outshine a variety on the coin any day of the week.

One of the realities is that the coin has an historical popularity based upon "perceived" rarity.

The other reality is that the coin is simply not rare. People choose to "believe" that its rare because of the historical prices it's sold for and generally speaking, that price is usually out of the range of the "average" coin collector. If one were to have the resources to simply "blow" 3 to 4 thousand dollars, this coin is readily available and to me, that's not rare. That's popular.

There's another reality at work here as well. The reality that what you have is more than likely simple machine doubling. I say this simply because of the low mintages AND given the popularity of the coin, if there had been an RPM for this particular date and mintmark, it surely would have been identified by now. As a matter of fact, given the low mintage numbers, I doubt that more than 4 dies exist for the entire run. Surely such a small quantity of die's would have produced an RPM by now.

 

Which Registry?

 

Is this what you are looking for??

http://www.cointalk.com/threads/1932-d-d-washington-quarter.217468/