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Old 05-09-2006, 09:02 PM   #23 (permalink)
NICK66
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The coins you saw may have been encapsulated by low-budget slabbers. If they used the term "double die", that's a dead giveaway they don't know what they're doing. The correct term is "doubled die". A true doubled die will not show flat shelving. Instead you'll see furrowed letters and numbers, split serifs, and often subequal strength of both images.
Yeah, but the pictures I see in the Redbook, namely the 1937 doubled die, and the 1943 doubled die Quarters, look a lot like machine doubling. These look too confusing so I keep every coin I get that has any type of doubling because there will always be differences in opinions about doubling.
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