If the edge of a dollar is doubled will it be all the way around, or can you get it in just a few places? Like it was squeezed again erasing most of the first one. Hard to take these pictures! These were from a new mint roll. Part of a Star between the U and M. This was on a different one.
Oh wow! I hope you're right! You ought to be rewarded for just thinking of looking there for doubling!
But these are struck in a plain collar. The edge lettering is applied after striking. And as rascal said these happen from coins getting pressed against each other. The regular lettering is incuse but the faint doubled letters are slightly raised from the metal being forced into the recessed letter of another coin.
Here is an error I would like to own one day! And here is an interesting website with Dollar coin errors I want to share the following webpage with you - @dchjr http://coins.about.com/od/errorcoin...Error-Photos/Faceless-Presidential-Dollar.htm
So you're saying the doubling isn't on the "hub." Exactly how are these "raised hubs" made, then, that are imparting the incuse lettering? I get it now why this particular doubling wasn't on the "hub."
Let's just take this foregoing theory. This isn't "doubling," then, at all, but tantamount (and I use that term very loosely) to a haphazard "clashing" or bumping of the edges. If that's the theory, look at this impressed star and impressed 8 in these attachments, and explain how it happens they're so perfectly aligned with the stars and the numbers and letters on the collar. I'm saying, that's some coincidence... View attachment 566754 View attachment 566752
See a post I made in Feb 2012 about the edge lettering on a Hayes Dollar. Caused by slippage during the edge lettering process.
