Could one of you gentlemen break this down for me. I'll just use the first picture as sample. When I look at this these letters, I see multiple layers. While some are flat and some appear to be deterioration of the edge of the die, there's still some that appear to be rounded and in line with the letter, adding to the device; or so it would seem. What am I not understanding or over thinking or just not looking at it right?
Everything you've said is a form of worthless doubling. To me it makes no difference if it's MD, DDD or any other type of doubling as it's worthless. The coin will always be worth face value.
That's not quite helping my friend. That's like saying "I just don't like your coin". I realize that there's MD, there's DDD and then there's DD. From what I understand, they aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, it makes perfect sense to me that DD coin late stage die would and could in fact have DDD and after 100,000 strikes some loose dies add some nice MD to even a 1955 or 1969 DD. So what I'm asking for is how to separate these peculiars and what would they or do they look like, assuming that my coin is just junk MD and DDD. What more should I see or look for or not count or whatever....
I understand what you are saying but I'm not going to explain the fine differences. Do some research as you'll learn more. And please don't take offense at this, what I'm saying is is that it doesn't really matter, on your coin or any other, if it is worthless doubling caused by any source, it's not worth the time to figure out how that doubling occurred. That coin will always be worth face value. With enough magnification any coin will show problems.
