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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 506133, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Welcome and,</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Welcome and hope you get &quot;hooked&quot; on die varieties!!</p><p>This coin has minor mechanical doubling very common for the type. We see them all the time but, this year is loaded with true doublED dies so keep searching. A Cherry Pickers Guild would really help you to learn true die doubling from other forms of doubling - my guilds have probably helped me find many thousands of dollars worth of doublED dies also there are great threads on here (Coin Talk) to help you learn.</p><p>One of the best ways I have been able to explain a mechanically doubled coin from a true doublED die is - a mechanically doubled coin will show flat shelve-like doubling to it, sort of like the metal has been pushed, pulled or scooted during the moment of striking. The dies worked loose - look at your coin and imagine the dies are loose and the when they come together to strike the coin there is a wobble or shifting at the moment of striking and the images are slightly doubled. True doubled dies generally will show thick extra letters, numbers, or parts of the design sort of juxtaposition of each other. Slightly on top of and adjacent to but with an entire portion of the extra letter or number ajar to the primary. Remember when people that have not learned yet what a true doublED die is they will say &quot;double die&quot; as if it has something to do with the coin being struck more than once - it is not, it the die or hubb that during manufacturing has been impressed more than once in a manner that transferred the image in an offset or otherwise ajar position and created a die (doublED die) and every coin that die strikes is a doublED die. Additionally, remember the die is a negative image and encuse design of the final stuck coin. If the die was a postive image we would not have as dramatic types of doublED dies any longer and our coins then would be stamped and not stuck - the coin metal fills the die during striking not the other way around.</p><p>Hope this helps you,</p><p>Ben Peters[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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