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Doubling on lower queue

32 listed varieties show doubling here, across several series and dates. That is worth knowing before you get excited about one coin: a device that doubles often is a device where doubling is common, and where machine doubling imitates it most convincingly.

DesignationSeriesClass
1939-S DDO-002Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1940-P DDO-003Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1942-P DDO-003Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1943-P DDO-001Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1943-P DDO-011Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1943-S DDO-001Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1944-P DDO-002Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1944-P DDO-003Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1940-P DDR-001Washington QuarterVI distended hub doubling
1945-P DDO-001Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1945-P DDO-005Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1951-P DDO-002Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1951-P DDO-004Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1952-P DDO-001Washington QuarterVI distended hub doubling
1952-D DDO-001Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1953-P Pr DDO-001Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1963-P DDO-002Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1963-D DDO-003Washington QuarterII distorted hub doubling
1963-D DDO-010Washington QuarterII distorted hub doubling
1964-P Pr DDO-001Washington QuarterII distorted hub doubling
1967-P DDO-001Washington QuarterII distorted hub doubling
1967-P DDO-002Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1968-S Pr DDO-001Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1970-D DDO-001Washington QuarterV pivoted hub doubling
1970-D DDO-002Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1969-S Pr DDO-001Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1960-P Pr DDO-002Washington Quarter
1945-D DDO-001Washington Quarter
1945-D DDO-002Washington QuarterVI distended hub doubling
1944-P DDO-001Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1944-P DDR-001Washington QuarterI rotated hub doubling
1963-P DDO-002Washington Quarter

The same device, coin after coin

Doubling on lower queue looks similar across dozens of varieties, which is exactly why eyeballing it misleads. Measure the displacement instead and the differences stop being a matter of opinion.

What it measures

This is a reference, not an attribution. It narrows the field and names what each die is identified by; deciding that a coin is one of them is done with the coin under a lens, by a person, against the markers. Nothing here grades a coin or says it is genuine, and the wording is written from structured facts rather than copied from any catalog.

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