Notice how the "doubled" areas flattened and shelf like. That is classic machine doubling. Someone has been posting a nice schematic showing the difference. One of these days, I need to copy it.
@BlueskiBlue, I'd call that just a twist and a slide when the coin was struck. Any kind of movement, slippage, twist, hop, skip, jump, anything, however minute, under that heavy striking pressure, is going to leave a trail of it on the finished product, i.e., the coin. That's the simple of it, and it just takes a little getting used to what those look like to differentiate them from true doubled dies.
I have never agreed with this drawing. If you look at the portion identified as "Machine Doubling" it is not flat and shelf-like as it should be. Where the arrow points to the step, it is curved, and that curve extends the full length of the letter. How can a curved object be flat? Chris
