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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevereecy, post: 851895, member: 19884&quot;]Thats a good question, and the more I research this stuff, the more befuddled I get.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For fun, I went back to my local coin shop that has unsearched jefferson war nickels today in a bucket for $1.50.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think they search those buckets very well because I&#039;ve found all kinds of deals there.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was specifically looking for the doubled eye, the 43/42 and the 45 doubled reverse.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I found a &#039;43-P in XF that appears to have &quot;something&quot; in that area of the nose.&nbsp; And it has die cracks.&nbsp; And it also has minor doubling on the right date and the right side letters in &quot;liberty&quot;.&nbsp; So this new one has doubling in the &quot;right place&quot; in the lettering, but just some kind of bump or lump where the little eye should be.&nbsp; But again, this one has die cracks...so who knows?&nbsp; (Literally...who does know, is there an expert?)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So I cracked the books on this one.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nagengast says only that it is a doubled die with the prominant feature being a part of another eye showing below the portrait&#039;s normal eye.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>St. Breen says, &quot;Two Eyes&quot; and &quot;lettering and date also show multiple impressions&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp; Note that he does not differentiate the lettering...doesn&#039;t say just the date and liberty.&nbsp; Breen says it was discovered by Bill Fivaz.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Redbook guide to Buffalo and Jefferson Nickels by Q. David Bowers says &quot;Further from Fivaz-Stanton: &#039;The doubling is visible on the date, liberty, the motto, and most noticeably the eye&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So right now, whether this coin has a good second eye or not, I think that if you have decent doubling on any of those places, you probably have the variety in a later die state, unless you want to call it an entirely new error, which probably isn&#039;t appropriate.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, what that leaves me with is right where I started.&nbsp; It is debateable whether this coin is a double eye, but I think it is because of the doubling I&#039;m seeing in &quot;Trust&quot;.&nbsp; But I&#039;m clearly not 100% certain, and not egocentric enough to worry about it if I&#039;m wrong.&nbsp; This education has been priceless and I truly thank all of those who provided good info.&nbsp; I do have to say that I&#039;m intrigued by my research, and might just delve deeper into this topic.&nbsp; If anyone has any other source information, or can state any good sources that make the claim that there is varying quality of the doubled eye, I&#039;d defniitely be interested.&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp; Maybe late in the die life, they fixed the eye problem but not the lettering problem and these are rarer?&nbsp; It&#039;d be cool to find an UNC version like that because that would be worthy of publication.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Steve[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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