1969-S Doubled Die Reverse DDR-003

Description

Medium-strength doubling on UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and E PLURIBUS UNUM characterizes DDR-003 on the 1969-S Jefferson nickel. San Francisco struck approximately 123.1 million business-strike nickels in 1969, alongside a separate proof issue for the annual proof set — this DDR could appear on either production type, and collectors should note which format they encounter. The simultaneous medium doubling on both the upper denomination legend and the motto indicates a hub misalignment with a wide area of effect across the reverse die. VarietyVista catalogs this variety as UVC-1361 with die marriage reference DMR-014. As the third DDR cataloged for the 1969-S date, it documents a distinct hub-doubling event separate from DDR-001 and DDR-002, each representing an individual die that received a misaligned secondary hub impression. Medium classification places the doubling in a readily detectable range under standard numismatic magnification — the secondary letter images on both UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and E PLURIBUS UNUM should be visible without extreme lighting or magnification techniques.

Die Markers

• UVC-1361; DMR-014

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