1919 Double Dot imposter?

[Basilstate]

Interesting that the scarce 1942 and 1943 varieties were so highly priced. I guess they were new discoveries too.

Well spotted Mr.T,i'm not sure(forgotten) of the demand for those varieties in 1964 but Gartners book was the reference for many dealers in that period,64-66,before other publications took over.
The majority of dealers in 1964 were 80%+ stamps,as was Gartner himself,so a learning curve for them as well as we headed to Decimal currency.

[Mister T]

Yeah makes sense. I don't have many of the older books but I guess they were comparatively new discoveries.

[nealeffendi]

The ACR November issue has an article by Mark Duff on the 1919 DD. Lots of assumptions in that article including that there are 2 different dies for the DD and that they are Sydney struck. Now he claims that the ratio of the 2 dies is 90:10 but if that ratio was true then why have I never seen any other DD excepting the false DD of which I have a number.
 And next month he will have an article on 1920. I expect my blood will boil over the assumptions in that article

[fred lever]

Hi Neal for interesting reading and coin research have a read of the latest issue of the Independant Coin News.
See page 25 "The importance of dots". The author covers a lot of ground including the 1919 and 1920 pennies.
Effendi and Lever are included in the references for the article.
The whole magazine has very interesting reading for collectors interested in coin research.

Fred.

[autocoupler]

Deleted