Part II. Die Varieties:
Doubled Dies:
Class III (Design Hub Doubling):
1943 over 1942-P Jefferson Nickel
Definition: A Class III doubled die occurs when a working die receives a second hubbing from a working hub with a different design. Some of the best-known cases involve working hubs with two different dates.
This Class III doubled die occurred when a Jefferson nickel working die was first hubbed with a 1942 working hub and then hubbed again with a 1943 working hub. The P-mintmark was then later applied to this die.
The image below shows part of numeral 2 underneath numeral 3.
Images courtesy of Jim Kohl.
Such errors are sometimes incorrectly referred to as “overdates“. An overdate occurs when two different digits (or
sets of digits) are punched into a working die. Such errors ceased to be a possibility after 1908.
