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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3217834, member: 77814&quot;]Doubling is usually easily visible by the naked eye.</p><p>Once you get into microscopes ... well many of them add distortion and use algorythms that create things.&nbsp; Then you add on it people who want to &quot;find&quot; things and certain patterns start making ppl think they have something when they don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>you need to start learning about the minting process and what is and is *not* an error.&nbsp; many ppl think when they see &quot;doubling&quot; that it is a mint error when 99.9% of the time it&#039;s (a) Machine/Mechanical Doubling or (b) Die Deterioration Doubling.&nbsp; Learn about those first and you&#039;ll make sure you are not sorely disappointed time and time again.</p><p>(a) <a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5688/Double-Dies-vs-Machine-Doubling/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5688/Double-Dies-vs-Machine-Doubling/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5688/Double-Dies-vs-Machine-Doubling/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(b) Die Deterioration Doubling. the die is getting worn down and losing it&#039;s crisp, detailed edges, and shows a shelf like pattern of the letter next to (extension of) the letter itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Versus true Doubled Die.</p><p>see this ==&gt; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/got-some-doubled-dies-on-these-nickels.325359/#post-3213433" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/got-some-doubled-dies-on-these-nickels.325359/#post-3213433">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/got-some-doubled-dies-on-these-nickels.325359/#post-3213433</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Mint Error information</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint-made_errors" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint-made_errors" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint-made_errors</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Error_Coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Error_Coins" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Error_Coins</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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