New Libertad Variety, DDO

[mackbrass]

Went through a roll i just received from Canada.

 

After going through a roll of libertads, one coin caught my eye. The left hand appeared to have a shadow and after flipping it around I noticed doubling. The wing of the libertad also had doubling as well as all the written words on the obverse like Mo, 1 Onza and the mountains. I decided to look back at all of the libertads I had for the same year and found a total of 6 coins with the same exact attributes. These were not the 1987 DDO but from a different year. I will be submitting these to NGC and will write more when they are graded.

 

The pic attached is one area where the doubling is noticed.

 

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[JTO]

That "shelf like" appearance is usually a dead giveaway for strike doubling. I may be wrong and the NGC guys know their stuff but that does not look like a Doubled Die to me. Just one old guys opinion....

 

I hope I am wrong,

 

John

[mackbrass]

You may be right as i am no expert myself. The whole front of the coin shows this doubling and for all 6 I found the doubling is in the same exact areas. I wish I could figure out how to load more picks without making a new post.

[RWB]

In the photos it looks like mechanical doubling. The cause is mechanical and that means it can appear on many coin until the problem was corrected or the press stopped.