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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1955894, member: 15199&quot;]Same, except not as much MD visible on the mintmark. Machine doubling can be in any direction and can only affect certain portions of a coin. Machine doubling is a flattened secondary or even tertiary ( 3 ) images. The key is that a real doubled die will not change the width of the original, but will<span style="color: #ff0080"> add</span> to it with a secondary image close to the same height as the original image.&nbsp;&nbsp; A MD will<span style="color: #ff4d4d"> decrease </span>the width of the original by the amount of the machine doubling, and be of lesser height than the original image.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice how in this 1972/72 DDO die #1, each image is about the same height. This is an extreme example, the second image may be very thin and appear as a line down an enlarged letter or a split ( 2) serifs on a letter or number.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq279/desertgem/197272d-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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