First post - 1924 dime

[ThaiRunts]

Hello all, this is my first post. I've never dabbled much in Mercury dimes, but I happened upon a number of them and started looking at them and going through a number of my books on misplaced dates etc..

I've not seen any varieties listed for this dime, but the date is quite odd. There is NO doubling anywhere else on the dime, but I can make out an additional 1, 9 and 2 (and small portion of a 4). This doesn't look like a die that slipped during the press. I'm not that familiar with how these dimes were minted to come up with another conclusion. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Scott

[mustbebob]

Scott,
Both the spread, and the appearance of the doubling suggests mechanical doubling. If this were an actual hub doubled die, and the spread was that wide, then a lot of other design elements would have been affected. It is also very possible that machine doubling only affects a small portion of a struck coin. This is one of those examples.