1958 D WRPM 015?

[CommunicatorDan]

Hi Group,

I was looking at this 1958 D Lincoln cent, and I wanted some input.

The D mint mark seems to have a small separation both at the bottom and top of vertical line of the D.

Thoughts?

[MintErrors]

I think i see split serifs but thats all i can tell from the photo.

What i think we as a group need photo wise is.....

a well centered photo of the date and mintmark. Straight on is best, like the ones you would see at varietyvista.com . It might allow us to do a overlay if needed.

An additional photo with the potential split serifs lit up. I mean, make them shine so we can see what they look like. It may make it a tad easier to confirm/attribute them.

Nothing against coppercoins or doubleddie.com but, some of their documented finds can be minor, in my opinion. Its like the 1960 D RPMs. Varietyvista has like 113 or so. Copper coins has 280 I believe. I dont know how many doubleddie.com has, i think they did a best of series, so they probably did not do them all.

[CommunicatorDan]

I tried taking in different lighting. Hope it helps

[eaxtellcoin]

Hello Dan,
I turned you photo a few hours back. It's close up and in focus - Thank you. Suggestion crop the photo to 1200pxX900px when posting,
So the date/mintmark are complete to overlay. Yes I've changed this post. WRPM015 crosses to RPM013. Why I did not see that earlier. Not sure, long day. This below is an old copy of RPM013: 1958-D-RPM#13B-UNC+(2))-M.jpg
Notice the primary mintmark is near the 9 of the date, yours is way south? Your's is a minor RPM yes, but it's not RPM013.
Sorry for the confusion I caused.
Eric

[MintErrors]

I tried taking in different lighting. Hope it helps

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In my opinion, Everything Eric says above adds up in time. Hours can be spent doing things which the original poster could do themselves.

I am not ponting fingers, so please dont take this personally. The following recommendations apply to EVERYONE.

You are helping in many ways that others do not come close to. At least you try to give an assessment of what your coin is. It truly helps narrow down the heap in some cases. It cuts down on the time to work through these.
I too am guilty of not doing the following things on occasion.

Please see the following newly created post

https://board.conecaonline.org/forum...lp-us-help-you

[CommunicatorDan]

Thank you guys so much for your help and suggestions. I really do try to figure out what is happening with a coin, so I do reffer to err-ref.com and to wexler's for help.

I try not to post things I know are just PMD, but but being a newbie, it gets a little confusing.

For example, I still don't know the difference between the 3 legged buffalo nickel and a modern coin mising an letter or 2. From what I understand both are a result of someone over polishing the die. Is it the scarcity og the nickel that makes it valuable?

[eaxtellcoin]

The normal difference is missing letters or numbers on modern coins are from grease filled dies. the grease builds up on an area, and gives the impression that the letter or # is missing.

[CommunicatorDan]

Finally someone gave me an answer. Thank you.

[MintErrors]

Thank you guys so much for your help and suggestions. I really do try to figure out what is happening with a coin, so I do reffer to err-ref.com and to wexler's for help.

I try not to post things I know are just PMD, but but being a newbie, it gets a little confusing.

For example, I still don't know the difference between the 3 legged buffalo nickel and a modern coin mising an letter or 2. From what I understand both are a result of someone over polishing the die. Is it the scarcity og the nickel that makes it valuable?

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In my opinion, the three legged buffalo is collectible because the collector interest was/is there. People like weird and different coins.

As any extremely valuable coin, there are attempts to counterfeit it as well.

https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1937-d-5c-3-legs/3982

https://www.money.org/break-a-leg/

https://www.pcgs.com/news/1937-d-3-legged-buffalo-nickel-capturing-attention

https://www.ngccoin.uk/news/article/3894/Counterfeit-1937D-Buffalo-Nickel/

https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/13006/counterfeit-detection-three-legged-nickel-outright-fake/