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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 933387, member: 15445&quot;] </p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/ProofSetsCapitalHolder.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I just bought this handsome capital plastic holder with proof sets from 1957 to 1963.&nbsp; The Capital holder was inside of a large zip-lock baggie which allowed a general view of the coins.&nbsp; After a quick determination that there were no spotted or problem coins, I bought it on the cheap (especially considering that there is about $6 in silver and folks are paying 12x today).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/Dime1963Cameo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">The real fun began when I started looking for varieties.&nbsp; According to Cherrypickers, there are doubled dies to be found in several years.&nbsp; (Cherrypickers depicts triple &amp; quadruple dies also).&nbsp; I started by looking at the 1961 half dollar reverse and then inspected all of the 1960 dated coins.&nbsp; Remember that the proof 1961 half dollar can include the king of all doubled dies where E PLURIBUS UNIM is strongly doubled.&nbsp; Essentially every denomination in 1960 also can be found with some type of doubling.&nbsp; One of the rarer 1960 cents can have&nbsp; obverse doubling apparent at the date caused by two hubbings with the large date and one hubbing with the small date.&nbsp; Of course, we had to really scrutinize all the quarters, dimes &amp; nickels and inspect for doubling on Monticello.&nbsp; This searching provided a full hour of fun under the microscope.&nbsp; While the looking was good, I’m sorry to report that the finding was bad.&nbsp; I didn’t find any doubling, tripling, etc. on any of the proof coins.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">During all this close inspection, I found that four of the cents and two of the silver coins included cameo devices and mirrored fields.&nbsp; The two silver coins were fairly obvious cameos along with the 1959 cent.&nbsp; In fact, the 59 cent might be deep cameo.&nbsp; All in all, it ended up being a pretty sweet purchase and I am very happy with it.&nbsp; My plan is to straighten the coins inside the holder &amp; keep it on the wall for daily viewing.&nbsp; </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/Cent1959Cameo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/Cent1958Cameo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Thanks for letting me share &amp; I hope you enjoyed the photos.&nbsp; Let us know if you have had any luck finding doubled dies in proof sets.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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