DDR ?

I believe treasurHunt is correct. Something else I have learned here, if you look at the left leg of the "A" in American, the doubled image is the correct size and demension of what the correct devise should look like. On a doubled die, the image is struck twice so you should have a full devise and then a partial doubling in addition.

I think this is right but wait for the guns to confirm.

Jim

it does not appear to be flat from what I can tell

i will try to get pics up of the hole coin
thank you
colleen

The term would more correctly be 'flattened' - not 'flat'. And yes, this is flattened, which is the most important classic sign of Machine Doubling.

Jim had everything right up to the point of saying that on a doubled die the letters are struck twice...not true. The letters are hubbed into the die out of alignment with another hubbing. This causes the doubling, it has nothing at all to do with the strike.

And therein lies the biggest difference between doubled dies and Machine Doubling. If your coin is doubled in such a way that it makes sense that it happened during the strike, it is not a doubled die. If the doubling you see could not have happened as a result of the strike, then it's probably a doubled die.

Thanks TreasHunt...kinda hard for me to tell with these bad eyes, looking through a loop too long :)