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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 7770736, member: 4920&quot;]OK, this &quot;split serif&quot; thing is an attribute of adjacent hubbings on the die. They&#039;re just two hubbings (&quot;punches,&quot; &quot;squeezes,&quot; whatever visualization works for you), just off from one another. The important thing to get, and which many of you, I&#039;m sorry to say, overlook, is that it, by definition, can <i>only</i> happen when there are two hubbings. Again, it&#039;s an attribute of two adjacent hubbings, just a little off.</p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming you&#039;re following that, answer this. How can you get two hubbings out of one hubbing? How can a single hubbing result in an attribute specific to a double hubbing? Assuming you&#039;re on the ball, lol, you know it can&#039;t. Therefore, what&#039;s this business of &quot;split serifs&quot; in some of these single-squeeze hubbings?</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re almost there. All you need to do is visualize a &quot;hubbing&quot; as a &quot;strike.&quot; That&#039;s in fact what it is. It just happens at the die and not the planchet stage. The hub strikes the die in much the same way the die later strikes the planchet. It&#039;s just a single time. The single-squeeze process of die-making has the same attributes as the single-strike process of coin-making. Every single thing that can go wrong in the latter resulting in doubled images on the coin can go wrong in the former resulting in doubled images on the die. There&#039;s just a caveat, and I&#039;ll not digress into the specifics of it, but it deals with the configuration of the single-squeeze hubbings being more amenable to tilted strikes, or, at least, that&#039;s how I got it. But for whatever the reason, these images are mimicking splitting. And when they&#039;re leaving their business on the edges, mimicking serif-splitting.</p><p><br /></p><p>So how do you determine when it is a true doubled die? If it&#039;s from a single-squeeze hubbing, there are <i>no</i> true doubled dies, and any splitting or split serifs you may see on those coins are just the result of a skip or a hop when the die blank was squeezed by the hub. Those attributes are irrelevant in single-squeeze &quot;doubled dies.&quot; Whether they&#039;re present or not is irrelevant. You&#039;re looking for <i>any</i> kind of &quot;doubling&quot; in those, whether but a flat smear, or whatever, it doesn&#039;t matter. As long as it&#039;s on the die,&nbsp; there&#039;s your elusive single-squeeze &quot;Wexler: WDDO-007|FS-01-313|CONECA: 11-O-V|Crawford: CDDO-0083,&quot; or whatever the hell, you got it! Great job! Wishing you continued um success! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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