The moment you all have been waiting for... And there are pictures

coinkat

Take close look at the image...PCGS has recognized the 1965 Churchill Double Die Reverse. It has its own PCGS number.

While this was discovered earlier either by Ken Potter or Alan Herbert, this is the first example acknowledged and graded by our host. This might be one of the most overlooked and underappreciated DDR coins of the second half of the twentieth century.

There was a somewhat famous comment made by a prominent British numismatist which I will paraphrase here... "The beauty of the Churchill Crown increases in direct proportion to the amount of wear it has sustained."

Seems that a photograph will have the last word and so many will never look at the Churchill Crown the same way again...

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coinkat

Notice the doubling on the Portrait at the outer eye brow extending downward through the nose, lips and ending at the chin

ajaan

Nice one 'kat. The first I've seen. I'm surprise 76 have been graded.

coinkat

@ajaan

76 MS65 Churchill crowns may have been graded... this is the first and currently the only DDR- this has a different PCGS number which is 908199.

Sadly I am currently unable to add it to my registry set because the registry does not recognize the new number assigned to it for the regular Churchill crown. I hope the PGCS Registry team will change this.

bidask

I’m squinting

291fifth

I remember buying one of those at a local bank in DeKalb, IL when they were first issued. I wonder if it was a double die?

coinkat

This graded MS65... currently the only one knowingly graded and recognized by our Host.