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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 650079, member: 16510"]This is perfectly correct and,  This is perfectly correct and was no doubt dreamed up by somebody wanting a premium for 1955 cents struck with worn out and overpolished dies. Folks if you are wanting to understand doublED dies learn about dies.The top, or highest point of the die when looking across it is the fields of the struck coin.  Yes flat die top surfaces - the design is negative, in reverse so when it is polished or worn the design elements start to "round out" or get "scooped away".  This is your poor mans doubled die, the blur of the "5" or whatever is mimicking the worn out portion of that die.The die that is a true doublED die, (in the case of the 1955 DDO-001) will also be flat across the top surfaces but in the encuse portion, the die images will be doubled - instead of 1 number 5 there will be 2 and not just the appearance of an extra 5, a real extra 5.The true 1955 doubled die could have been a true doubled die and also a  poor mans doubled die had the die been kept in service long enough and polished but we know it was taken out of service after approx. 30,000 (or less) strikes.  That means the die face remained pretty crisp with that low number of strikes.[/QUOTE]