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<p>[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2797176, member: 19250"]After doing some research I believe this 1855 H-10 to be a V-7 DDO-001</p><p>The doubling is shown on some of the shields horizontal bars, lettering ,"Liberty" & her thumb. This is minor doubling seen only on one part of design elements. So difficult to say what class of doubling. More likely Class IV ,offset hub doubling . This would occur on the first hubbing in the press.with only partial image of the center design was hubbed into the die.the working hub slightly offset from the original position,which would create the doubled image on those central elements. there has also been two other specimens found with the same type of doubling, guessing that it's so slight no numbers were assigned,just noted that there's more than one that exist. The specimen shows some nice clashes on the rev. The obv. Show 2 huge arrow heads that extend into the rock base. The arrows usually set lower and are much smaller in size .[ATTACH=full]651050[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]651051[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]651053[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]651054[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2797176, member: 19250"]After doing some research I believe this 1855 H-10 to be a V-7 DDO-001 The doubling is shown on some of the shields horizontal bars, lettering ,"Liberty" & her thumb. This is minor doubling seen only on one part of design elements. So difficult to say what class of doubling. More likely Class IV ,offset hub doubling . This would occur on the first hubbing in the press.with only partial image of the center design was hubbed into the die.the working hub slightly offset from the original position,which would create the doubled image on those central elements. there has also been two other specimens found with the same type of doubling, guessing that it's so slight no numbers were assigned,just noted that there's more than one that exist. The specimen shows some nice clashes on the rev. The obv. Show 2 huge arrow heads that extend into the rock base. The arrows usually set lower and are much smaller in size .[ATTACH=full]651050[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]651051[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]651053[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]651054[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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