1946 walker double die

1907Quarter

does anyone know what this looks like, and where the doubling is?

Cam40

DDR?

BowAxe

The variety I assume you are referring to is the doubled die reverse that has very clear doubling of the eagle's left leg and lower parts of the left wing feathers. If I remember correctly (being at work where I can't check this) I think the vegetation in front of the eagle also is clearly doubled. There are some other '46 doubled dies with less spectacular doubling.

Dell

oreville

The letters E PLURIBUS UNUM are doubled for the most part similar to the doubling seen on a 1983/83 DDR cent, mostly noticeable with naked eyes along with the vegetation, the eagle's claw/lower leg, and feathers. <p>
It is a grossly overlooked variety and it is neat to look at.

DennisH

Hello 1907Quarter!

Here is an 800% enlargement the really heavy part of the doubled area on an 1946 doubled die reverse MS66 PCGS. After I post this, I will scan the entire reverse of the coin, see if I can get some better lighting, and replace this small one with it.

http://www.members.aol.com/westdairy2/DDRclose.jpg

By the way, there's one of those stupidly lucky "Why doesn't that ever happen to me?" stories attached to how I got this coin Thursday at the Long Beach show.

-- Dennis

DennisH

Hello All!

Scan of full reverse now posted (800% of actual size).

-- Dennis

coindaughter

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dorkkarl

if memory serves correct, it is the only double-die that pcgs will attribute, no? considering that i've run across a few here & there, i suspect it ain't all too rare.

SPEAKING OF DDR'S, i am still always looking for :

1900 LIBERTY NICKEL, DDR

will gladly pay double greysheet in all grades.

K S

DennisH

Hello dorkkarl!

The 1946 doubled die reverse is the only variety (other than the obverse & reverse mint marks) that PCGS currently attributes on its holders.

I have PCGS pop reports from July of each year going back for several years. They show PCGS began attributing this variety sometime between July 1998 and July 1999. Since then, they have seen a total of 55 examples in all grades. Thirty-seven are VF or worse. Just nine are mint state -- two 63s, five 64s, and two 66s.

Based upon the prices I've seen these selling for (I've only seen three in 18 months), you might want to grab one or two if you can find them at the regular date price. For instance, a collector friend of mine called me earlier this month about a PCGS-63 that was being advertisied in Numismatic News (???) for $995. And in August the other PCGS-66 was offered on eBay with a Buy It Now price of $12,000. I didn't keep track of the auction results because the BIN was so absurd, but I know I placed a bid of $1,200, and it didn't meet reserve.

Anyway, it's a neat variety whose massive degree of doubling is matched by very few coins ever.

-- Dennis

oreville

I would suspect that the mintage of these are around 15,000 to 25, 000. Average die life of the reverse die. BUT HOLD ON.

Many of these have been melted during the 1979 to 1980 great silver melt. How many? Who knows? I would suspect at least 1/4 of them.

The remaining amounts that are in Fine to EF is probably less than 7,500. A reasonably scarce but not rare coin.

IN AU or better, could be a different story altogether.

koynekwest

There's more than a few of these around. It's not too difficult to find in circulated grades-I've found many in the fine-au grade range and have cherried a half dozen Mint state coins. The trick is to find them in an early die state. These are very tough. The fact that there are many LDS and VLDS coins around would indicate that the die probably ran it's full life (I would believe around 80,000 coins.) I'm sure many were melted during the silver craze though.