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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2265608, member: 19250&quot;]My next find was a 1870 Shield Nickel. Now this may be my best find in awhile,as I&#039;m quite sure there&#039;s going to be plenty of options on this one....but that&#039;s ok ...as I believe it may be a new variety or a sub variety of another very rare 1870 DDR.</p><p>Most doubled die&#039;s on Shields are DDO&#039;s there are only two known DDR&#039;s. Both are the 1870 Shield nickels.</p><p>Next let me say this ...that there are some crazy varieties in the year 1870 on Shield nickels.</p><p>I believe there to be 19 total, the mintage of the 1870 was 4,806,000 yet ranked 9th in overall rarity for being found in&nbsp; uncirculated&nbsp; grades.</p><p>Now back to the coin in question. there is a variety an DDR listed as (2-R-III) an R-7 cross ref. FS#5c_005.9 Doubling on all reverse lettering,most stars,and the 5 in the center of the coin{ reverse }</p><p>The next is an R-8 F#-13&nbsp; {05.17} The doubling shows on United with the spread towards the center of the coin Doubling is seen on the&quot; States Of Am &quot;&nbsp; with a clockwise rotation.The stars also show doubling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now another funny thing about the coin I found yesterday is the revers lettering. Starting with &quot;UNITED&quot; the Serif on the E and the top of the D is broken, Next the Two S&#039;s in States as well as the A are also broken letters, The F in Of is broken, In AMERICA the R is almost broken and the A again is broken. and lastly the S in CENTS is broken.</p><p>now broken letters on the reverse of a Shield is nothing new. You find as many as 4 on the 1868 Reverse of 68 those being The C in cents, The C and S in cents, the C,S in Cents as well as the first S in states,the C &amp; S in Cents,the first S in States and the D in United.&nbsp; As these make up the 5.5 varieties of an 1868 rev. of 68 reverse hub IIb .</p><p>My coin has a total of 9 broken letters. not the standard 4 or non letters broken. My coin has just about every star doubled, and my coin &quot;5&quot; in the center of the reverse is completely doubled. Now you can also read more at Shieldnickels.net about this rare DDR on the 1870 shield nickel I don&#039;t want to cause any copy right issues, so just go to the link , click on the top 20 shield nickels varieties ,and read up on the 1870 DDR&#039;s . As I stated there are two listed.</p><p>I&#039;m sure I&#039;m going to hear&nbsp; MD here as well as die deterioration and that&#039;s ok as everyone has a option. But if you read the text at Shieldnickels.net and how Howard explains why this has happen your get a better understanding.</p><p>He states that on this variety that the 1870 is of additional interest because the doubling is the result of hubbings from two different reverse designs - this is a reverse of &#039;70 (reverse IIc) impressed over a reverse of &#039;67 (reverse IIa).</p><p>Now my nickel may be a later die state , but I plan to send it to Howard to get his option on this coin.</p><p>Ok Let&#039;s hear it what say Ye? study the images and let it fly LOL....[ATTACH=full]450522[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450523[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450524[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450525[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450526[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450527[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450528[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450529[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450530[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]450531[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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