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Mike is correct, you cannot believe everything that you see on a slab.
Recently I wrote to a seller (Ebay) who was selling a 'slabbed' coin (from a real low-budget slabber) listed and slabbed as a 1858/7 Flying eagle.
Nice coin, except that the piece was a small letter 1858, and the 1858/7 is on the large letters Flying Eagle cent.
I wrote to him (the seller) and broke the news. Strangely (no surprise) I never got a reply.
So, the lesson is: believe what you know is correct.
Many of the so called double dies are strike doubling. There are some early Barber quarters with strike doubling that is very deceptive.
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