1917 Philadelphia LWC DDO ?

I am thinking not a DDO,but let's wait for a pro or two to chime in.
John1

I am providing my comments in the photos and have marked the relevant portions. My statements focus on the presence of doubling or notching, if an alternative option of flattening is your conclusion, or if the grade is too worn to make a conclusive statement, please share. Trying to build a skill of identifying DDO, DDRs in G8 to high XF--harder but more affordable to build a set. Thank you!

Note the areas you are looking on each circled area? All are on the outside/inside edges of the devices. That is where Machine Doubling happens. You can have Machine Doubling on a doubled die or on a normal die. It all depends on the machine. When a coin is highly circulated you get a lot of flattening of devices. So it makes it hard to tell what was there before the circulation flattening. But if there are outstanding die markers, that might help identify a known die number. If any should have created a DDO from what I can see it could be a class 6 doubled die. So you night check the listings for these. Best first to make side by sides to see what the base of the devices could be. (being that is what is left of height of the devices on your coin) Best to divide the images on the obverse into 5 areas.
(Rotation of devices with the horizontal on Liberty)

CENT WHEAT:
OBVERSE
IN GOD: 36 CW
D_WE_T: 0
TRUST: 34 CCW
REVERSE:
E-PLURIB: 27 CW
BUS_UNUM: 24 CCW

1. IN GOD (36 CCW)
2. D WE T (-0-)
3. TRUST (34 CW)
4. LIBERTY (-0-)
5. DATE (-0-)
Why do I divide them that way? Because the wider the view, the easier it is to see the actual spread of the coins devices. The spread is the key. If you look at the outside/inside areas of MD, it affects those areas the most. So create a set of a normal die, your coin and see where the foundations (taking in consideration device flattening) to see if there is a difference in size of the base of the devices. Lets start there. A set of images in that pattern? One set for regular and one set for your coin and see what you really have on your coin. Then you can see if the devices are normal/doubled/showing spread/flattening. This will be a helper for all to want to learn to see how to do this. If you can't edit images, then please included them here and I can help you. When cropping the images, make sure to include a bit wider shot to make sure to make the images all the same sizes.

How do I determine a Horizontal base line. I rotate the image to put a base line with an underline under Liberty. I usually make this line longer than LIBERTY to see if the base image needs to be rotated slightly. (we are talking tenth parts of a degree accurate) when the line is an exact match. that is the base line on your coin. The larger the base line images are, the more accurate the level line becomes. For images I use most images from PCGS and use them because they have sizes up to 6000 wide/tall of two images. I even enlarge up to 8000 wide/tall on two images and a single image to 4000. From the 4000 width image, then after being leveled, then I crop the images as I mentioned above.






CoopHome: How can you determine spread on circulated coins? (use of side by sides)

That is just part of the story. I left off yesterday with a question that was not asked. How can you tell a DDO from a regular coin in circulation coins? Well I used the same setup process as the information above with a G-08 graded normal coin and a same grade DDO coin to show the differences that can be seen on even circulation coins:





So there will be seen a spread even on circulated coins, but you have to look for the differences on a circulated DDO versus the circulated normal coin. With the white arrows it will show the spread on the devices.