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Message:: [QUOTE="UniqueDesigns, post: 2285640, member: 17654"]What BooksB4Coins said . . . DITTO. All states of the 1969 S; normal, machine strike doubled and DDO were struck by the US Mint as Business Strikes.The Mint cuts many dies of the same years product so that as one wares out for any reason they have another die to mount on the coin press and continue the production order with little delay. When those separate but supposedly identical dies are cut, occasionally the die or master get inadvertently rotated during the cutting process, which is how the DDO doubling gets created, in error.Your examples are ALL doublings that were created, NOT on the die face BEFORE striking the cent planchets, but instead the mounted dies, which strike a few thousand blank cent planchets per minute are moving so fast as the blanks are passing between these dies that some blanks SLIDE during their getting struck and your examples are the result. There is little chance that if messure accurately that even the 2 you have are IDENTICAL.DDOs ARE as DIES go IDENTICAL You are going to feel Really FOOLISH when you find what IGNORANCE you spew. I've uploaded the ONLY page in the CherryPicker's Guide that displays the ONLY example of the 1969 S DDO which is ACCEPTED as a TRUE DDO by the numismatic world. This page has a bottom entry that describes your Strike Doubled coins as NOT DDOs.[/QUOTE]