By Ken Potter for Numismaster

On Aug. 16, the day the new Thomas Jefferson Presidential dollars were released to the public, Chuck Chichinski of Bellefontaine, Ohio, went to his bank and obtained two rolls of the coins. Having read a report on the www.coins.about.com Web site that a doubled die reverse existed on the Adams dollar, he quickly went to work to see if any of the new Jeffersons he had obtained had a similar affliction. By the third or fourth coin in his first roll, he discovered that he had found his first Jefferson dollar doubled die reverse!

He called me to report his find on the same day and mailed two of the coins the next day for an attribution. I found that it was not only a doubled die that was similar to the Adams doubled die reverse that Chichinski had seen on the Internet on researcher Billy Crawford’s Web site but that it was almost identical to an earlier find that was reported by John Wexler recently. The only difference was that this one was even more prominent than any of the earlier listings.