1960 Franklin Half DDO Question - WDDO-001 Or DDO-003?

I say it might be. Some close ups of the areas of your coin on Mr. Wexlers site would be very helpful. It's tough to tell from the provided pictures. FS-101 is the listing number for the CherryPickers Guide.

-CH27

Oh Mr. Coop I didn't even realize that! thanks for the correction.

-CH27

My apologies, I was being lazy last night. I was working off images I had taken previously and hoped that would be detailed enough. I would say this is an impaired proof.

I am having some difficulty with lighting on these, but I think it will show adequately enough.

Note only the edges are affected. Looks like a case of slight Machine Doubling. No devices were enlarged, just altered.

Machine doubled. I have a 67 Kennedy half where the reverse lettering looks almost exactly like the lettering on the obverse of you coin.

Thanks for double checking Coop. I was very surprised by your original response, and was about ready to throw in the towel concerning distinguishing between MD and Doubled Dies. I've read your thread on Machine Doubling and seen some of your "work it boy" video on Doubled Dies. After looking at your MD thread, I had come to understand that MD tends to exhibit a shelf closer to the fields, whereas doubling would exhibit a shelf closer to the top of the devices (in the more subtle examples anyway).

I always hear that devices will be enlarged with doubling, but I don't really understand what that means. Do you happen to have a thread dedicated to differentiating between the two? This is the only image I've seen where you compare the two. (It appears to me that the bottom coin has both MD and DD). When I look at the image, I see the footprints of the devices to be the same. I overlayed two identical red rectangles in photoshop on your image, and I find that they measure the same.