Sometimes reporters should double check their stories. It kinda makes you wonder what else they get wrong. "Rare glitch in some Wyoming quarters yet to create collecting frenzy" http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/.../wyoming/1bbb645f72492a8a872574c00004cac8.txt read it carefully, the reporter states: "Some of the Wyoming quarters have a rare flaw, called a double die." But then says: "The mistake is caused when the die that stamps the quarter design is tilted and wobbles during the stamping process. " Strike doubling, not a DDO. So, I guess that we can't blame all of the eBay sellers for being ignorant.
wyoming quarter........................... ...........it certainly makes one want to educate oneself before buying!
No. The paper got it wrong in describing a MDD. There are currently 23 confirmed varieties of DDR for the Wyoming P quarter, and 2 for the proofs. All of these are class VIII, tilted hub doubling. The doubling occurs in varied spreads around the saddle horn or the tufts of the mane. I'm sure Mike Diamond could probably give much more information on it than I. But, I would say that the mistake the paper made was the fact that they described MDD and not a class VIII DDR.
First error by paper was calling it a double die and not a doubled die. There second mistake was in describing what happened in the creation of the die which caused the doubled die and saying that that was what happened to the coin. These doubled dies are real and we simply have yet another case of a non-numismatic reporter talking about something he knows nothing about and getting everything muddled.
Rightly or wrongly, I throw all these error types into the flyspeck category. The Minnesota(?) quarter had the same sort of errors. And then there's the Memorial Lincolns with doubled knees, wavy steps and long columns. To me they should be of no concern to the average collector. But they are the sort of thing the specialists live for. Nothing wrong with collecting them if that's your interest. Just don't pay big bucks for them.
