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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1332036, member: 66"]It is a real DDO I don't know the class number but it is called pivoted hub doubling.  On class 1 or rotated hub doubling like you see on the major 1955 or 1972 DDO cents the two impressions of the hub are rotated around the center point of the die.  In pivoted hub doubling that rotation point is offset from the center of the die.  In the case of this die the pivot point is somewhere around the T in UNITED.  Now the closer you are to the pivot point the less displacement there is between the two images.  All the lettering on the left side of the coin is very close to the pivot point and you really don't see any doubling.  But OF AMERICA is as far away from the pivot point as you can get which is why it shows very clear doubling.  (And why the doubling on the 1955 and 1972 cents show strongest out around the rims.  That's as far from the center as you can get.)  Another example of pivoted hub doubling that you might be more familiar with is the 1995 DDO cent.  In its case the pivot point is close to 3:00 so the doubling doesn't show much on the date, but the LIBERTY is strongly doubled.[/QUOTE]