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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikediamond, post: 92362, member: 1859&quot;]The extra 5 appears raised and nicely separated from the normal 5.&nbsp; It does not clearly correspond to any form of doubling I&#039;m familiar with.&nbsp; The separation is too great for the recent doubled dies that have been reported. Some 1943 cents have peculiar doubling like this that has been attributed to both machine doubling and die deterioration doubling.&nbsp; It could conceivably be a counterclash error.&nbsp; This occurs when a die strikes an already struck piece of metal.&nbsp; But the appearance is not consistent with a counterclash and there is no erratic die damage surrounding it.&nbsp; There is a 2000-P Sac dollar with an atypical counterclash error with no surrounding die damage, but it&#039;s much fainter than this.&nbsp; I suspect any grading service you send it to will simply guess as to what it is and send it back with whatever diagnosis they pulled out of thin air.&nbsp; My suggestion is to send it to Coin World&#039;s Collector&#039;s Clearinghouse.&nbsp; Eric Von Klinger would undoubtedly be interested and would send good photos to all the variety and error experts for their opinion.&nbsp; You may eventually have to &quot;shop it around&quot; to an assortment of experts.&nbsp; A coin like this must be studied closely under high magnification.&nbsp; A juicy mystery![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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