1973 D half dollar ddo?

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I was just looking at one very similar to this but very worn tonight. This seems to have doubling but it is not the one listed in Cherrypicker's. . I spent a lot of time on it because it did not match the book but looked legit. The R looks like MD on the curve but the UST looks like true doubling for the 71- 74 years. There are 6 DDO's listed on Variety Vista but 3 do not have photo's. I would suggest you contact Mr. Wiles via email and send him some good pictures.

 

Wexler has 2 listed but not sure if they match. It does look like a Doubled Die, http://doubleddie.com/2393158.html

 

Thank you so much. I will try to take good pictures. It has nice rainbow toning on the obverse and reverse.

 

My money on coneca #6 .
How about a image of the hair, on the back of the head ..

 

Looking at all those listings I have thrown back a lot of DDO KHD's over the last year and a half I have been looking. Been trying to find a 73 - 001 but no luck yet.
This is a nice find. Congratulations!

 

Thank you guys. What do you think I should send it to PCGS? It has really nice rainbow toning.

 

It's MD. It's also not worth having graded.

 

I don’t think your 73D would be a DDO. I compared your photos with all six of the CONECA listed 73D’s in my collection and nothing matched. Five of the six listed (-001 thru -005) have some notching on the top of the U in TRUST, see attached photo, I don’t see it on yours. I don’t see any extra thickness on the RTY or hair like the -006, on your 73D, see attached photo. Also, the mintmark position on your half is very low compared to anything listed. I think what you are seeing on TRUST is MDD.

Larry Nienaber

 

Is that a die crack running along the top of WE TRUST? Looks like some doubling but I'm not a variety collector.

 

Do you possibly think that it could be a different die stage?
I see a lot of notching and separation lines that say DDO and not MDD. If not the same one you photoed possibly a die stage of another.

That's a real nice looking 73D DDO you got there.
Phil

 

Always use the variety sites to match your images too .
Coneca takes pretty much the images the same for their DDOs .
Which means their all taken pretty much the same .

 

@atrox001 Where are you getting photo's of all 6?! This is all I can find and there are many items missing pictures on this site. Frustrating not to have comparison photo's of all the varieties available.

Where are you