Bust Half Doubling

Here are some close-up images of an 1810 O.104 that I recently acquired. It was part of a four coin lot and one could see from the images an obverse scratch and an obvious cleaning. I had her pegged for a Christmas gift to a young collector but upon receipt I was blown away by the obverse doubling!

 

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Wow very impressive.

 

This is a really cool thread on the 1810 but not much to help with the image posted. http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=562291&STARTPAGE=1

 

Very interesting , is this die doubling ?
rzage

 

rzage,

I am pretty sure that she was Double Struck! Nice coin!


Frank

 

I'm thinking mechanical doubling.

 

Bust Half 1810 O.104

Here are images of obv & rev. This type of doubling is common on many dates but to my knowledge only occurred on the O.104 during the 1810 mintage. I've seen a lot of doubled and tripled profiles (many more pronounced than this one) but this coin's doubling on S10-S13 and date is as pronounced as I've ever seen. According to Bust Half Fever author Edgar Souders the doubling was caused by a sideways slip of the working die within the screwpress.

 

It looks like die ejection doubling, pretty severe.

 

I agree with the machine/mechanical/strike doubling idea.
These are fairly common on Bust 1/2's.

But, this is an extreme example.

Nice find.

 

I believe that it is 0-104, (Overton) [but, I have been wrong before.]

R-3.
nice piece.