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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2140830, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;d have to see better pictures but yes I think it may be a DDO.&nbsp; Everyone has been looking at the annulet and cross, look at the tops of the red stripes.&nbsp; They appear to extend up into the bottom two blue stripes.&nbsp; That is the center of the die and the first point of contact between the hub and the die blank. Make gentle contact there, then reposition and hub again and you can have hub doubling there without doubling appearing on the annulet.&nbsp; (Although it looks like the annulet might have a blue line running through the bottom of it as well.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There were four different hubs used to make the shield nickels, one with rays between the stars and three without rays.&nbsp; Each of the three without rays had slightly different relationships between the points of the stars and the letters.&nbsp; The first one used in 1867 and 68 has the top star pointing at the right serif of the E in STATES and a star points between and AM in AMERICA.&nbsp; The second hub, used in 1868 only has the top star pointing at the serif of the second S in STATES.&nbsp; The third hub used 1868 through 1883&nbsp; again has the top star pointing at the right serif of the E, but instead of being between AM this star is now nearly centered under the M.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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