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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2390214, member: 1892&quot;]There is a very simple truth about die/hub doubling and double strikes vs. strike/machine doubling which seems to occasionally get ignored: true doubling of the numismatic-interest type - genuine permanent doubling on either hub or die - always <b>adds</b> to the stroke of the coin, as there is always a &quot;full&quot; strike of the initial feature over top of the first. The same is true of double strikes; the last strike is going to be a full strike, of a complete stroke width <i>in addition to</i> the underlying first strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention there should be clear serif splitting, which is not visible here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Machine/strike doubling does not show any of that, and normally fits into the original stroke/dimension of the feature struck. It&#039;s as much a &quot;smear&quot; as an extra hit. What we see here - to me - is an extreme example but cannot be anything other than strike/machine doubling. Its&#039; extremity makes this quite an interesting coin to my mind, but MD all the same. The whole point of MD is it&#039;s caused by movement of the die during a single strike - it smears the feature as it strikes it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if the whole shebang wasn&#039;t as tightly screwed together as it should be for this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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