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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 551704, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Flat shelve-like doubling,</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This as got to be the hardest thing in the world to understand as it comes up almost daily and you certainly are not the only one to be confused by it so here is some help.</p><p>Imagine the dies work loose and the kind of flop because of it - now this is very minute and subtle.&nbsp; As the dies strike more coins (while loose) the dies scoot or shift during or after striking instantantaneous shifting or scooting a portion of the image, in this case the mint-mark.&nbsp; This flat shelve-like doubling is seen as a doubled image but in reality is just a scooting, pushing, or pulling of that image.</p><p>If you look closely at your coin and the direction of the &quot;D&quot; as it is doubled you will probably find some of the date, the head/neck or motto doubled the same exact way, (direction) - this is the tip off to mechanical doubling.</p><p>True doubled dies generally have thick extra images that are raised as if 2 images are on top off by slightly ajar of each other but rairly flat like your coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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