1946 Walking Half, possible Double Die Reverse
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My father was the coin expert and I like to go thru his collection once in a while. Recently I recently ran across this 1946 Walking Half which I believe may be a Double Die Reverse. The most noticeable doubling is on the motto e pluribus unum. Both sides show over-polished dies with the reverse being the worst. The designer's initials (Adolph Weinman) on the reverse is missing.
"No AW" Walking Liberty half-dollar (1916–1947) is a valuable error coin missing the designer's initials (Adolph Weinman) on the reverse, caused by over-polished dies.”
I posted pics of both sides of the coin along with closeups of the motto and designer's initials or lack of.
My knowledge of coins is limited so I’m looking for any additional opinions.
John
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Unfortunately, it seems to be machine doubling and not a double die. Machine doubling doesn't add any value to the coin, unless it's a very extreme example. It's caused is when the coin slightly shifts as it's being struck, causing a unique step-like doubling as seen in the photo below:
For a coin to be a doubled die, it must match up perfectly with a known doubled die example found on an amazing little site called Variety Vista which has almost every single double die known. Go check it out!
As for the missing initials, it looks like they are mostly missing but (from what I can tell) are only valuable for proof coins which you do not have here.
Not familiar with these halves, but pretty sure that is just from die deterioration. Both dies appear to be nearing the ends of their usefulness.
This kind of looks like designer initials to me...
Nope, that’s not it.
The true DDR has very prominent doubling on the wing feathers, and your specimen seems to lack this:
Thank you everyone, some excellent info. The last picture really had some very dstinct doubeling.
Yeah that one is not a DDO, but keep looking - I have cherrypicked three MS ones and an AU one over the past few years.