Hotlips Double Die Slip on 1888 Silver Dollar

Hot Lips 1888 Morgan Silver Dollar
Showing Die Slip Error 

Regular 1888 Morgan Silver Dollar

         

Note the following in regards to a notable person recently added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2026 site: 

Jennifer Paes (née Dutton; 1953 or 1954 – 17 May 2026) basketball player

Her surname Paes becomes “pays” when applying the “Exchange Letter in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster and in turn another addition to the recent “Money Theme” pattern cluster.  She has on child whose first name, Leander, jives with the money theme via the “Remove a Letter in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster, and so making “lender”.   

  Leander Adrian Paes (/peɪs/ PAYSS; born 17 June 1973)

Note the 17th day/month sequence with the two dates… and given my son-in-laws April 17 birthday, the cluster expands into an “April 17, May 17, June 17/17th Day/Month Sequence” pattern cluster (a perfect hand of 3). 

This is a definite twin heads upp— to follow the money trail.  First off, I considered Jennifer Paes maiden name “Dutton”… and what immediately came to mind was “button”, and a memory came to mind— of coins made into buttons?!  I decided to do a search on the history of coins, it was a whirlwind search that in about half an hour of clicking on links: History of coins; …hammered coinage;…a planchet or flan; …Morgan Dollar; … Sherman Silver Purchase Act;… Senator John Sherman.  

I was looking for a particular lead—a name… a notable person, that I finally arrived at with the Morgan Dollar,… that reminded me of my “Shero”, Elaine Morgan…,

Note the following also from the Morgan Dollar wiki page: 

 The coin is named after its designer, United States Mint Assistant Engraver George T. Morgan. The obverse depicts a profile portrait representing Liberty, modeled by Anna Willess Williams, while the reverse depicts an eagle with wings outstretched.

FINALLY, we have a woman from the sea of men, note from her wiki page:  

Anna Willess Williams (August 15, 1857 – April 17, 1926)

Her date of death expands the now  an “April 17(x2), May 17, June 17/17th Day/Month Sequence” pattern cluster . An indication that we’re on the “wright” track.  Note this next excerpt from the Morgan Dollar wiki page: 

… the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, …

The name “Sherman” is a twin heads upp, the first 4 letters “sher” are additions to the “Word in Name” pattern cluster … on two accounts, that provide us with “she” and “her”, … that together with “mothers Day”, we now have a “Women Theme” pattern cluster in the works.  Now note the following information from the Act’s namesakes wiki page: 

 John Sherman  (May 10, 1823 – October 22, 1900)

He was born on MOTHERS DAY!! Now THAT takes the Mothers Day CAKE!!  

Since the Morgan Silver Dollar was also stamped in 1888 (three identical numbers in sequence being an inner twin trade mark) , I decided to look on line for an image of an 1888 Silver Dollar, and google brought up the following four images: 

What struck me as “audd”, was the last coin at right that says “Hot Lips”… What the heck?! So I googled:

 

The 1888 "Hot Lips" Morgan Silver Dollar is a highly sought-after, minting error varietyof the 1888-O Morgan dollar (struck at the New Orleans Mint). It gets its catchy nickname from a prominent doubled die error on the obverse ("heads") side, which causes Lady Liberty to appear as though she has misaligned or double lips. [1, 2, 3, 4]

 

Yep, this was no error, butt a strategic design influence of the inner twin world.  As you can see, the error didn’t just affect the lips, butt also the chin and nose!!  Puts a whole new meaning to the idiom: Don’t get your Nose out of Joint!!