Previously Known Doubled Die Cent Discovered To Be An Overdate
About 45 years ago, collector Del Romines came into my office at Coin World’s Collectors Clearinghouse with two well-worn 1943-P nickels that he thought were 1943/2-P overdates. I thought that he might be right, so I took pictures of his coins, published them in Coin World and asked if anybody had a higher grade specimen that could verify the overdate. One week later, a member of my local coin club, Bern Nagengast, cherry-picked a sharp BU specimen at a coin show, and the 1943/42-P Jefferson nickel was confirmed. At the time, people were amazed that it had taken almost 35 years for the overdate to be noticed.
About a month ago [April], longtime collector James Elliott contacted me via the internet and said that another collector in the die variety collecting field,
