The lettering looks funny on the IH I found last weekend...

[Big Fang Coin Biter]

Check it out in the picture, the lettering looks "outlined" by a thicker slightly offset strike. It is most pronounced on the "United". It does show in "States of America" (note the "O" and "R"). To me it looks like a doubled die, but none are reported for this year. Could it be a loose die effect? Anybody seen this and know what it is?
Thanks for the help and HH
BF

 

[Larry (IL)]

Beautiful coin. What you likely have is a double strike which can happen with any coin that does not eject properly and sometimes you will have coin rotation in varying degrees from the first strike to the second.

On a doubled die coin, the doubling is on the die and every coin make with that die has the same error.

 

[TokenDigger]

That is a beautiful Indian Head and the nicest I've seen that came out of the ground. The doubling on some of the lettering you see may be due to the letters being recut on the dies at the Mint. I know they used to do that on the dates of certain shield nickels. I would think on a double die that most, if not all, of the lettering, profile and date would be doubled. Neat find. HH

 

[bbqman]

Whatever the deal is , I like it, NICE !

 

[born2hunt]

That is a very nice IH Congrats

 

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[DirtFlipper]

It's not die chatter, but something coin collectors call 'Longacre doubling'. Has to do with how the lettering was engraved:

"Back to the subject at hand: what is Longacre doubling? On many of his designs, most notably the Indian Head cents of 1859 to 1909, and many Seated Liberty coins (although those are actually designed by Christian Gobrecht, the effects are the same) there is a notable doubling of the design elements on many coins. For beginners (and advanced collectors alike) this doubling is often encountered on the legends. Easily encountered examples are on high grade Indian Head cents, in the

 

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