Possible 1973 P Doubled Die Obverse Variety

Looks flat to me which would be MD...but I have been wrong before. I'm sure someone else will chime in.

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The B and the E in LIBERTY are clearly raised, all of the other words seem to have extra thickness. I can see it when I look from an angle. You can see how the E looks raised. It's not so uniform from letter to letter like a lot of Machine Doubling either. Everything looks rounded. The date looks kinda weird, not as thick, but it's still very soft around the edges - doesn't look like it was smashed down in striking. There's definitely extra thickness on the lettering. LIBERTY looks very blobbish. If it's not doubling from the die, it is something other than double striking. The back was definitely struck only once. Wish I could post better photos, these are just scans.

thanks coop, i'll do my research on double dies because I definitely keep making this type of mistake. I hate using my scanner, it'll be good once I get my loupe!

First off the Liberty that year has a strange alignment of the devices to begin with:

The 'E' often causes attention, but that is normal as all of them look that way. On the IB I see evidence of coin contact on those devices. Note how there is a slight push NE on those devices. But when you look at the width of the devices, they are the same as normal. (In fact smaller on your coin, as the die was over polished, removing part of the fields thickness, makes all the devices shorter in size than normal) So when searching for doubled dies, look at the centers of the devices and not at the outside edges of devices. MD and coin contact affect them there.
Note the a side by side of a normal coin and the DDO devices, how the devices are showing a spread on the centers of the devices:




Note on this DDO, the devices are made taller than normal. Most of the time they will look wider than normal. But look at the centers of the devices to see a spread on the centers of the devices, and forget looking at the outside edges, where event alter after the strike. Also note on closed devices, these are altered making them a different shape than normal. Hope this helps.

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