Lograce Doubling Yhat is not a double die that is logacre doubling, because the doubling is on both sides of the letting .SORRY Jazzcoins Joe
Joe, It's Longacre doubling and this is not it. Longacre doubling was an effect seen on Indian cents and some other obsolete coinage. Jello, die deterioration doubling and machine doubling are not the same thing, so you were on the right track but the wrong train. In any case, This coin is not a doubled die. This was a case where the die was overused. I hate to sound blunt, but newbies have to pay attention to who they pick up information from . Some of it is simply dead wrong, I'm sorry to say. Thanks, Bill
As Bill said, Longacre doubling is on Indian Head cents, and on various Seated coins. Called Longacre doubling, 'cause he was the designer of the coins. He was long gone (dead) before the Jeff's were designed.
What i meant to say it looks like Longacre doubling, The doubling on this proof coin is not mushy like most die deterioration doubling.I know that Longacre was the designer of those coins, but this proof has the look of that kind of doubling maybe because it;s a proof and there struck differently then bussiness stricks more pressure involved. I just wanted to clear that up jazzcoins Joe
You just need to be really careful how things are worded or the new people will walk away with a lot of erroneous information. If it looks like something, you need to say that the first time around. When someone says it "IS" something a new person who doesn't know anything yet may just believe the wrong information, then the wrong information spreads. A great example is Walter Breen. The present generation of researchers came to realize that he was wrong somewhere between 10% and 20% with his supposed facts. Researchers discovered that he basically made things up when necessary. His bad information is still out there and it still spreads. When we teach, we have to be more accurate. Thanks, Bill
