Take a look at these photos and see how many of you think this coin may be from a real doubled die. I could not get a very good photo of the coin because it is still in the thick plastic capsule. every number in both dates have a thin line running thru the center of them on the top of the numbers. If this is a doubled die coin then I have not seen it reported anywhere yet. maybe I can find you folks some more doubled die coins to look for. usually I have to find them and get folks to start watching for them.
Sorry folks about the bad photos , this was the best I could thru the plastic and don't want to remove the coin from it's plastic covering. If you enlarge the photos and look really closely you may be able to make out the split serifs in the number 1 of the dates. this is easier to see on the 1 in the first photo. this seperating line is on the top of every number but my camera would just not pick up the lines thru the plastic.I do believe we may have a new discovery here but we have to wait to get someone else to see if I'm right or wrong. I sent Mr. Wexler these same photos so we will have to wait to find out what he thinks.
Condor101 I have had this thing in my collection for many years and I have been discovering many different unlisted doubled die coins . For some reasom I just never bothered to check out this one. If this is a doubled die coin the rest of you folks can find some of them. If this is a unlisted doubled die then I will try to get it slabbed as the discovery piece. I have few slabbed discovery pieces and would love to have a dollar size one. I still have a awesome foreign coin discovery piece authenticated by Wexler in 1982 and never did get it slabbed. this one has as much or maybe more doubling than the doubled die 55 USA cent coin.It is from Sudan and you may have seen it in the error variety news magazine for somewhere around 1983.
This is more than likely the CONECA MDO-001 DDO IKE Dollar. Meaning, Master Die Doubling and is quite common on the Silver Business Strike, the Silver Proof and the Copper Nickel Proof. http://www.varietyvista.com/Variety Master Listings/eisenhower doubled dies.htm#_1976-S
You sure may be right . I didn't know that Coneca had already identified a 1976 doubled die. My coin appears to have a bit more stronger doubling than your photo shows but my coin may be a early die state. on the coin I have the doubling shows the best on the 9s and 6s in the dates. the number 6s are split nicely at the top of the 6 and then split again at the top of the curl in the 6. I don't see how a master hub could get doubled from being engraved but I suppose anything can happen. if this was the master hub then every 1976 dollar will have this same doubling because the master hub is the one that is used to make the design on all the working dies.. maybe the folks at Coneca just thinks the master die was doubled , I only have this one 76 dollar coin so I don't have anything to compare it to. If every 76 dollar has this doubling then why should we call them anything other than a 76 dollar ? Thanks for the information.
Master Die NOT Master Hub. Master Dies are used to make "Working Hubs" which make Working Dies yet Master Dies are made in the same manner as Working Dies in that they are pressed and repressed against the Master Hub until all design elements show up.
