Is This True Doubling On This 1973-S LMC

Looks like Machine Doubling to me.

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Here are a few higher rez pictures, but I'm still not able to capture everything the way I want. I may try again different light conditions if necessary.

In general I'm seeing a displacement of the devices in the motto from right to left, with the most dramatic shift in the letters "IN" and in the hair and forehead of Lincoln's bust (these seem to have maybe more of a nne to ssw shift).

Honestly, I can see why you would think that it is a Doubled Die, but in all fairness it is the victim of a high bounce MD. It isn't shelflike as in most Machine Doubling. High bounce Machine Doubling happens when the die strikes the coin and when it rebounds shifts laterally and comes down again.

Last picture I'm going to post unless there is a request another part of the coin. Also I thought MD was supposed to be all squared off shelf like and all the same color... If this is MD I'm completely lost and have no idea what to look for LOL

I'm unable to find much on Master die doubling for the 1973 but since there are spots where it looks like there's tripling I'm just wondering if this could be exhibiting some master dye doubling in addition to double die

I was thinking of using ESRI ArcMap software to basically georeference and superimpose the abnormal coin over a regular 72s to check that very thing. It's sort of hard (for me anyway) definite determination with a side-by-side, but that said, I think I can see what you're talking about. That's excellent advice many thanks for all the feedback.

I don't personally know any experts (no doubt many of you would fit that designation), and would be open to suggestions if you or any of the other guys has anybody they have used.

Of course no fatality would be complete without a coffin nail from John or from Coop LOL. I know there must be a million people like me a day questioning bad news and it's got to get old explaining the same thing over and over to us noobs, so just know that I do appreciate the feedback from everybody out there giving their honest opinions!

No, I think I know you right and probably knew it all along. But you know how it is (better than I)... you look hard and you see something like that and you don't want to admit it to yourself after all that searching you came up short again.

Too many straight lines, too many shadows too much flatness .. there was quite a bit of depth in the O in God, but like you pointed out, the letter appears smaller as a result.

I have a expanding graveyard of dead soldiers, if you will. Each one of them entombed in its paper slab and replete with condensed annotations of what I thought they were, as well as conclusions from the members of this site.

At some point I was thinking of doing a post with just those... if nothing else might be educational for all noobs out there who would take up the hunt!

If there's a moral to this story, it probably go something like; be ready to work your tail of, prepared to deal with a lot of disappointment, and have the tenacity ( or pigheadedness in my case) to get back up and do it again.

Cheers!