A rose is a rose is a rose. Right? Not so sure.

I love doubled die coins. I love having them in my registry set. the 1972 DDO has been eluding me for a while so I decided to do a little research on the 72 Doubled die, or should that be dies. There are at least 8 that are recognized and probably countless more minor ones that no one pays attention to. To most the 72 FS 101 is THE coin.

My research took me to the registry points listing in the NGC archives and low and behold, the FS 103 RD has the same point listings as the FS 101. The key is that it has to be RED.

Knowing that a 1972 MS64RD FS 101 would be out of my budget range, I started looking for the FS 103.

Yup! 1972 MS64RD FS-103 that I could afford and gives me the same registry points as the "real" one.

My only question; Is it a rose?

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