1969 Netherlands OBV and REV DD

[Robert Janks]

Doubling is quite noticeable on all outer devices of the OBV. The REV I was having some trouble with the photos, But the 969 of the date has some strong doubling and CENT of has on inner curve of C and middle and upper bar of E. It is also evident on the N and The bar of the T. I don't know if you will be able to make out the doubling on the REV>



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[Petespockets55]

This thickness is somewhat odd. I started to think it is some type of MD but the thickness seems to be on both sides.
It reminds me of "Longacre doubling" on US Indian cents or somewhat like the large date over small date Lincoln cents from 1960.

Could they have had two types of master dies that year?
(My apologies but I'm not familiar with foreign designs, especially from year to year.)

[mustbebob]

This appears to be severe die deterioration. When you see the anomaly all around the digits/numbers, that's a good bet that it is deterioration.

[MintErrors]

Yeah this almost looks like Longacre's "doubling", where an attempt is made to clean out a really well used die to make it last a little longer.
I will confess, I don't know enough about the die manufacturing for foreign countries. But by "U.S. standards", this is not considered a doubled die.

Think of it this way... if you have a master die, made of metal and it is used to make almost exact duplicate working dies, those impressions SHOULD look very close to the same, to include the thickness of the letters. Additionally, if this was a doubled die, the orientation should be the same distance and direction on everything that is doubled. This seems to be all over the place, uneven, and varying thickness of the letters.

There are several countries that try to add this fluffy style font effect coins to make the lettering look unique and different.

On the NUMISTA website, there is no mention what so ever about any doubled dies existing for this coinage.
When I look at the example on Numista, that even exhibits machine doubling seen from a distance.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces656.html

Even the NGC world coin prices does not have a mention of any varieties for this series:

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/...5-duid-1431040

A quick search of ebay shows this issue at a different axis:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20383476863...0AAOSwq5piDZrm

So, it is not looking good in respect to being a known variety. The coin simply looks too odd for me to call this a variety.