Beautiful San Diego

[joelozano]

I'm glad that I found you guys, born and raised here in San Diego just getting over some cancer and I've been collecting myself for many years, I really got interested when I was a child going to the swap meets her the only place you could really find coins was pretty much there. I'm 60 and my collections pretty good actually because of grandparents and so forth. I have a great foreign collection Plus many Morgan's and Mercury's plus almost a full uncirculated set of Indian heads. Just very fortunate I guess. I was left quite a few wheat and have really gotten into the Lincoln Memorial error coins, I guess it's just a treasure hunt which I really enjoy when I was going through my disability, it's a amazing the beauty and a ridiculous Little Penny and finding a high grade one with pretty interesting or different errors, I think after much reading that the engravers really didn't want to have any of their Perfections with defaults, I'm new to taking pictures and I know that I have some pretty interesting imperfections which I'm excited to share with my other collectors, I hope I'm not too much of a nerd but something that I really enjoy and my wife and someone goofball but anyway the one thing I guess I really need help on which I haven't really looked into is how to take a great picture, I have a microscope and I use my camera to take a picture from the screen it turned out okay but I think I have quite a good collection and I would love to share and see what your thoughts are thank you so much

[joelozano]

As you can tell I'm not very good photographer but I have some really high grade 1992 D's with this difference in ear, I came across a role with quite a few of these actually and I compare them to high grade uncirculated and I think there's a difference I hope that maybe you guys can give me your opinion I know they're terrible pictures but I'll try better next time with maybe a little advice

[joelozano]

I'm sorry 1990 denver, I have 1992s also that I will show later but I didn't know where to start I hope I'm doing the right thing

[MintErrors]

Hello

Welcome aboard.
The website I like to send people to to see if any varieties are listed are

http://varietyvista.com

https://coppercoins.com

In my opinion, this looks like mechanical doubling or damage. It has those step-like features, one level lower than the other.

Variety Vista does not list any for that coin.
The magnification you are using is quite extreme.
Typically graders and attributers use a 10x loupe or magnification to determine grades and varieties.
If they are unable to see it at that level, they may label it "too minor to list".

[Petespockets55]

Welcome to the forum and it will be interesting to see your coins.
Here's a link to the PCGS site to see nice clear images. You'll have to scroll to the bottom to get to the 1996D.
(If you're not familiar with links, just click on it.)
PCGS LINK
You can use this link to navigate to all other US denominations as well. Just play around the site to get familiar with it.

It looks like your closeup is a screenshot of your computer screen which makes it difficult to see nuances on the coin very well.
If it's not a screenshot can you pull away from the coin a little?

I'm not the best at taking images but use my phone or add a clip-on macro lens. The phone isn't perfect but the software does a decent job of adjusting the focus and light. I also have a microscope but lighting makes the images washed out with silvery tones sometimes.