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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 8052266, member: 13307&quot;]Hello again!</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently picked this coin up and didn&#039;t think too much about it.&nbsp; It&#039;s got a lower mintage than the BU strike (125,000 vs. 4,875,000) but from what I&#039;ve seen hasn&#039;t really earned too high of a premium over silver melt...so I was going to sell it to defray the costs of my entire purchase (so I could keep some other pieces from that buy.)&nbsp; I&#039;d even listed it (unsuccessfully, I might add) for a small premium over melt.&nbsp; It was in what looked like the original PVC flip (had the mint mark embossed in the plastic) and did have some PVC contamination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then that little voice in the back of my brain tells me to take a closer look at it before I sell it off.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why it said that, but it&#039;s the same voice that on multiple occasions that has said things like, &quot;You&#039;d better slow down or you&#039;ll hit a deer&quot; about ten seconds before a deer runs across the road while I was driving at night.&nbsp; I wish that voice would tell me lottery numbers or give me stock market tips!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, back to the coin:&nbsp; I did take a closer look at that coin, and I immediately withdrew the coin from my sales list.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; I found a nice little doubled die on the obverse lettering.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have yet to find another example cited online anywhere - so I&#039;ll tentatively call it a &quot;discovery piece.&quot;&nbsp; (Not that something like that matters to me.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the entire coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1394616[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a closeup of the &quot;1972 In Munchen&quot; side - in my opinion the doubling is easiest to see on the U of MUNCHEN:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1394617[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another closeup of that same area with a few red arrows pointing to where the doubling is easiest to see:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1394618[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This doubling is evident (in various strengths) on all obverse lettering - I just shared photos of the area where it was strongest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure if it adds any significant value to the coin, but it DOES mean I&#039;m holding on to it for a while longer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for reading, and if you either a) already noticed this variety or b) know somewhere online that has already noticed the variety I&#039;d be very happy to learn more about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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