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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 578490, member: 16510&quot;]<b>You&#039;all are making it much harder than it need be.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You&#039;all are making it much harder than it need be.&nbsp; It is (that coin) strike, or mechanical, or machine, or shelve, or bounce - the plain fact is it is not a die variety - if it happened during striking, after striking, or on the pavement, it just don&#039;t matter cause it&#039;s not a coin that is going to be worth research as a die variety.&nbsp; If it were we would say so.&nbsp; Listen, we went through the same frustrating learning process as you are going through right now - there is no other way to learn this stuff.</p><p><b>Fish thinks, or so it seems, that the strength of doubling has something to do with being a true doublED die - it does not - what makes a doubled die is the hubbing of the die and not the end result on the coin - that is the bonus, what we see on the struck coin is the result of the hubbing of the die multiple times with adjustment or other type problems - until you get this you will have a very hard time understanding the difference.</b></p><p><b>If you continue to get this frustrated over not fully understanding this area of numismatics then it may not be for you but I hope you find some other area that satisfies you - for the other guy tying to explain to us about strike doubling, whether it is or not, or at the end or not, well, I have no advice.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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