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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 781406, member: 16510&quot;]<b>It takes a die variety specialist exactly 2 seconds to see</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It takes a die variety specialist exactly 2 seconds to see this is a mechanically doubled coin.&nbsp; Now I&#039;m not suggesting you should have been able to do it that fast at all but you should know enough by now to tell after closely looking, study and thinking about it - where are the pointers we&#039;ve been giving you?&nbsp; What did you really feel in your gut?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve said it before and I&#039;ll say it again, &quot;we make it too easy on CoinTalk at times for folks to <b>not learn for themselves,</b> ( true doubled dies from other forms of doubling) and depend on others for the knowledge they should be gaining for themselves.&quot;</p><p>We, by doing this are actually cheating these new folks out of an education by answering questions instead of challenging them to prove it to themselves what is a doubled die.</p><p>Nothing at all aganst this poster, or any others but when do we stop answering the questions and ask them to learn to answer these?</p><p>I&#039;m not talking about first, second or even 144th first time postings but at what point do we start to ask ourselves, <b>are folks finding it easier to just post and ask rather than take it on themselves?</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On this particular coin I suspect the poster did not ask/answer for him/her self one of the last questions I would have had when trying to detemine this particular piece, that is &quot;on an 86 Lincoln reverse with this type of crisp, fairly big doubling - why have not others been found, most likley they would have, not always but probably.&nbsp; Then that, therefore begins to answer for me &quot;it&#039;s probably not a true doubled die is it&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>I also hope that new people reading these type threads think we just sit back on our thrones and say, MD, MDD, MMD (that&#039;s why I hate these appreviations so much, they say esp. to the new commer absolutly nothing the he/she understands) we don&#039;t just arbitrarly say every coin is mechnically/machine doubled.&nbsp; We know because we also at one time, had to do the work, we had to learn for ourselves what is a doubled die and more importantly what is not![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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