I'm not going to post the photo's because they are copyrighted, but take a look at this coin. If I were to post this here, you would either tell me to lay off the hard stuff at night or tell me it's die deterioration. I can't see what is being seen in this coin. Can someone help me out here? http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/diestate.php?date=2001&die_id=2001p1do001&die_state=mds
I agree 100%, I believe we're getting a little too desparate for our britches.. I really enjoy searching for varieties, but if I had to put aside every coin that I've found with such minute details, it would take forever cataloging them...
I'm with you. I was trying to find everything, but think I'm just going to stick with the CP's Guide from now on. When variety collectors have to move from loupe to electron microscope its gone a little too far.
I like how the first caption says to check out the nice spread... I see zero spread... DDD would be the first guess, but the deterioration is so vague, it could just be the guys camera out of focus for all I know... B
If you knew the different classes of doubling you'd see it in the photo's. There's a big difference between DDD and the different classes of doubled dies.
Yes there is a big difference in the types of doubling as compared to ddd and I don't see any signs of them here... I see a hazy picture at best that says there is a 'nice spread' on the doubling... I see nothing that would make me believe this is any variety of double die... I see a bunch of arrows that show what is supposed to be doubling north and east of 'berty', but the noted spread looks the same as on the west where there is similar 'doubling'... Even the edge of the coin is taking on the same 'spread' effect of ddd... Maybe the pictures are just that bad, but the fact is, if that is a double die, I have a collection of about 5000 I can sell to the highest bidder...
