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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 779289, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Also the term is doublED not double die.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also the term is doublED not double die.</p><p>This goes to the heart of the whole subject - for some reason one of the main stumbling blocks to learning about doubled dies is this very thing.&nbsp; When most people think &quot;double&quot; or &quot;doubled die&quot; they see a coin and say it&#039;s doubled so it&#039;s double or doubled die coin, or even worse, &quot;the coin was struck twice&quot;.&nbsp; This is not how die variety specialist think because they have learned the coin is the end result of a doubled die - we know it began with hubbing of the die and the mint created a doUBLED die - in other words it&#039;s a doubled die before the die in question ever strikes a coin.&nbsp; The coin is the result of that doublED die - this is also why they are die varieties simply because we can trace that coin (that die) to one particular die, die variety.</p><p>Hope this helps you![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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