1964-D Doubled Die Reverse DDR-004

Description

Medium spread combined with extra thickness affects an extensive range of reverse elements on DDR-004 of the 1964-D Jefferson nickel: E PLURIBUS UNUM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FIVE CENTS, the M and last O of MONTICELLO, and both building edges. Felix Schlag's architectural rendering of Thomas Jefferson's Charlottesville estate provides both textual and structural elements for doubling detection, and the involvement of the building edges — the vertical lines defining Monticello's facade — alongside the text creates a comprehensive diagnostic footprint. Denver produced approximately 1.79 billion nickels in 1964, an extraordinary mintage driven by the nationwide coin shortage that prompted Congress to eliminate mintmarks from 1965 through 1967 coinage. Die markers UVC-1301 and DMR-012 catalog this variety within the VarietyVista system. The dual characterization of "medium spread and extra thickness" indicates the hub misalignment produced both directionally visible displacement (medium spread) and stroke-weight enhancement (extra thickness) simultaneously — a combination that can occur when the secondary hub impression lands at a slight angle, producing directional spread on elements distant from the tilt axis and extra thickness on elements near it. The building edges provide particularly clean diagnostics for this dual effect, as their straight vertical lines reveal both lateral displacement and added width with greater clarity than curved or organic design elements. DDR-004 holds the fourth position in a substantial reverse doubled die census for the 1964-D nickel, a date whose record-breaking production generated correspondingly numerous die pairs and proportional variety documentation.

Die Markers

• UVC-1301; DMR-012

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