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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Seattlite86, post: 3357929, member: 59737&quot;]Hey Folks,</p><p><br /></p><p>I probably need to do some more research into this, but I&#039;ve mentioned before that I found a pattern of 2002-J Germany 2 Euro Coins being DDOs.&nbsp; I just received another dozen or so of these coins and have found distinct patterns of doubling with them.&nbsp; It seems there are generally 3 stages:</p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest stage is almost not identifiable with a 10x loupe.&nbsp; In fact, I thought these were not doubled, until I took this photo with a higher powered loupe.&nbsp; Unfortunately, most of the ones that I have with such minimal doubling are strongly circulated.&nbsp; I need to re-sort my collection and see if I can find a better example.&nbsp; Here you can see just a little bit of doubling on the lower bar of the 2s.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]889485[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a chance that this is next coin is actually what the first coin looks like with less circulation, but I&#039;ll need a cleaner &quot;first&quot; stage to be able to tell for sure.&nbsp; Here is the &quot;second&quot; stage where you can start to see doubling at the tops and bottoms of all numbers. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]889489[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the &quot;third&quot; stage, which is distinct from the other two stages, as the separation is much larger and more pronounced than the other stage(s).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]889491[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone has any literature they can send my way about the die/hubbing/minting process of european coins, I&#039;d be very much interested in reading it, so I can be a little more informed on what I&#039;m looking at and how it happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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