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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 1803923, member: 4350&quot;]Here&#039;s where the problem comes in.&nbsp; You can&#039;t use die markers, in reverse, so to speak.&nbsp; Die markers are used after you identify a die variety.&nbsp; Die markers are described as general terms.&nbsp; For example,&nbsp; the die chips in the word LIBERTY can be used a thousand times on a thousand different coins because die chips were incredibly common in the late fifties and into the early 60s.&nbsp; Things like die polish lines used as a description of something that can be used as a die marker can be found on millions of coins.&nbsp; A die chip or other things described as die markers can be found on almost every coin but it doesn&#039;t prove anything except when the die marker is specific and exactly duplicated on every example of every coin of a particular die variety.&nbsp; Die polish lines cant just be going in a similar direction, for example.&nbsp; The die polish lines have to be microscopically identical to the polish lines on a die variety that you are trying to identify.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I am suggesting is that you don&#039;t look for common die chips or die polish lines to pronounce a coin a doubled die before you see die doubling on the coin,&nbsp; but you use die markers to prove that a coin is a doubled die after you are satisfied that there is the right doubling on the coin to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen collections of coins that have been put together where the person said things like.&nbsp; Well these coins have the die markers that were described.&nbsp; They mentioned things things like a die gouge or a die chip.&nbsp; Well the coins did have some things visible like gouges or chips or die polish lines but they were not the right and very specific ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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