Greetings I know this is not a close am but checking on variety Vista it looks like this is a DDR 001 stage a. Am I saying this right? The pictures look identical to the 92 I have. Thanks
This is a stage V doubling. Very weak with seperation lines but at the furthest point of the doubling which is seen best on the FG, there is no denying that it is a doubled die. The 92 is not very dramatic at all. @Jjpe you haven't provided good enough photos to tell anything about your coin.
Thanks everybody by the way what is the best way to take pictures of coins I heard of a coin box where you cut out the sides of a box put some tissue paper on it and it filters light any recommendations
You can set up a shoebox to take shots. I’m remote so no access to those photos. Bug here is an old setup I used.
That does look like doubling on the designer's initials, but geeze, I don't know what the turn on is. I mean, this is what's defining the hobby, now? Variety Vista? People are consumed by it, now. Ah, live and let live...
If I see extra thickness, or separation lines. I always would like to have a reference. Not that I think it would garner a premium in the market place, but to put a number on it and stash it away in the collection. Sometime down the road someone will be looking for the variety.
Eddie, I see like this. I live with a 4 lane road about 100 ft behind my property that connects a large high school with the rest of the city with only 2 stoplights. Each day the students roar up to school, RPMs in low gear, and again around 3 or 4 back to home. Of course when a real car is going much faster, hardly any sound. The FAKE sound is like the "doubling" that is 99.99% Not Doubled die , but coin collecting's collectors and financially pushing dealers and "error" supporting publishers seem to all have for monetary values. There are some I think are trying hard to be correct, but more rush in to publish first and promote them for sales. But coins can follows ~ Buy the look , don't worry about what is under the hood! If the die was old or damaged.....just call it a new variety, IMO, Jim
Now you're talking economics, right? The simple question is do you honestly believe anybody is going to pay you any premium for it just because Variety Vista identified it, among the literally tens of thousands, as an obscure "doubled die?" People search for these because they get a kick out of it, not because they're worth any darn thing to anybody. It passes the time, like knitting a sweater.
