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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4950989, member: 105098&quot;]Way,</p><p>Every single doubled die variety has repeatable charateristics. Therefore every single doubled die variety has been cataloged except for new ones. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are looking for something that is known, then you look in the areas it&#039;s supposed to be present. </p><p><br /></p><p>Doubled die is on the die, every coin struck with that die looks exactly the same and affects the same area or letters every time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best way to do this is to know what you are looking for and where to look. </p><p>If you take every coin and stick it under the USB microscope looking for anything, 99.9% of the time it&#039;s going to be die deterioration doubling or mechanical doubling because those types of doubling are very common. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just trying to give you info so you&#039;re not wasting so much of your time looking for anything. Much easier to look for specific things. </p><p>I go though, sort by dates and mint marks, what I want to look at and get used to what I&#039;m looking for (what dates and mint marks have vauable doubled dies) then I pull up the refernce and see if any of it is a match and move on to the next and immediately rule out anything that isn&#039;t known and cataloged.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I have free time I may mess around with new coin or a couple years earlier and look for something new that hasnt been cataloged but again it&#039;s going to be a lot of DDD or MD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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