Jefferson Nickel Variety of the Week: 1943-S DDO-008

BigDowgie

Jefferson Nickel Variety of the Week: 1943-S DDO-008

Maybe some of you thought the BigDowgie was out of the Jefferson Nickel Enthusiast Club........well, you were wrong! I've been out undercover, hunting those elusive Jefferson varieties.

I want to share this Jefferson for a few reasons: 1) this DDO is pretty obvious with little magnification, 2) I've been looking at War Nickels forever and have never seen one and 3) I own it after pulling it out of nicklejones' clenched fingers!

Upon checking Variety Vista website, the 1943-S has 13 documented DDO's listed in CONECA. Due to the fact I've never found a 1943-S DDO, I've never checked. Pretty amazing! Just my opinion, DDO-006, DDO-008 and DDO-013 would be the most desirable. These have the nicer spread in the doubling.

So, does anyone have one?

Happy hunting!

Aspie_Rocco

Woooooo! Nice coin! Glad to see these Nickel treads back.

cmerlo1

Some nice doubled dies can be found in the war nickels. I picked a '43-S DDO-006 a while back and it was pretty strong.

DIMEMAN

Nice to see the Big Dog in Nickels back and posting varieties. This is a nice one. Welcome back Mike!

BigDowgie

@cmerlo1 said:
Some nice doubled dies can be found in the war nickels. I picked a '43-S DDO-006 a while back and it was pretty strong.

Yeah, I like the DDO-006 the best of the three I noted earlier! I always have room in my collection for that one!

ricko

Nice pick up... I have a couple of '43 war nickels... will have to check them out... just put them aside when I got them without any scrutiny... years ago....Cheers, RickO