On a 2020-D nickel. Looks overall to have nice separation and splitting on some letters. Does not look to be shelf-like under most light angles, but the light spread on some letters makes me feel it’s something more than MD.
Actually Paddy isn't that much of a doubled die enthusiasts,especially when it comes to moderns.To me it appears to be MD flat and shelf like,also remember doubled dies are varietys not errors.
Thank you all for the responses. I am definitely familiar with the shelf-like distinction for MD. I have seen this image a number of times over the years, but I am starting to wonder if the difference in relief between the design element and the doubling is not as applicable in ultra-modern coins. I am copy-and-pasting a few images of modern doubled dies below to show what I mean. I feel like a lot of the examples would be initially disregarded because the doubling is shelf-like. Some have rather flat doubling as well. ^^ CopperCoins 2018D-1DR-001 ^^ Wexler 2013-P 10c WDDR-001 ^^ Wexler 2019-P 5c WDDR-028 ^^ Wexler 2021-D 1c WWHO-001 ^^ Wexler 2021-D 1c WDDR-002 ^^ Wexler 2018-D 10c WDDR-002 I am interested in what you all think about this, as it seems the doubling in some doubled dies on more-recent coinage is of a much lower relief than the original design element and a little contradictory to the picture of the "Actual Doubled Die" in the commonly used infographic. Maybe these doubled dies like the ones shown above are more common after the introduction of single-squeeze hubbing presses in 1996 and 1997 (source in case anyone's interested).
