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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cliff Reuter, post: 8298537, member: 115140&quot;]To each their own and maybe Lincoln&#039;s aren&#039;t your cup of tea but this coin exhibits lite &quot;classic&quot; hub doubling that is on modern Lincoln cents. The doubling is stronger than some varieties and weaker than others.(The bottom left&nbsp; &quot;angled corners&quot; of RTY on this example for instance is one diagnostic.)</p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO, just because the doubling isn&#039;t strong enough for some or wasn&#039;t made the way they&#039;ve always been made doesn&#039;t negate the fact that there is only one example of that working hub with that particular doubling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Am I wrong or isn&#039;t a doubled die considered... a <u>doubled</u> ... <u>working</u> .... die!</p><p>(Or does the working die only qualify as doubled if the annealing process occurs between the multiple hubbings. Not from any research I&#039;ve encountered.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As for mechanical hub doubling .... really?</p><p>Please tell me what doubled hub isn&#039;t a form of mechanical doubling if that is what members use for their criteria? (If so, doubled die varieties don&#039;t really exist and I&#039;ll be really sad. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie15" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><u><br /></u></p><p><u>Does anyone consider the multitude of 1972P DDO&#039;s a form of &quot;mechanical hub doubling&quot; and therefore invaluable? Many of these are very similar.</u></p><p>Or should the 2009 DC quarter with strong Ellington doubling be considered &quot;Mechanical Hub doubling&quot; as suggested? I wouldn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>We, collectors, can truly be a strange group that feel it&#039;s ok to collect what <u>we</u> like with whatever tolerances we deem acceptable (or don&#039;t accept), but I guess it&#039;s gone on this way for millennia. Go figure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I, for one, will keep collecting the established varieties and the modern ones as well, until the latter become the &quot;established&quot; ones (and &quot;everyone&quot; loves and agrees on).</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW- IMHO, the driving force for most of us collectors is what we can afford when starting out. We adjust from there based on knowledge, interest, and finances.</p><p><br /></p><p>DBTW- Scribble Dibbits said to say she agrees because, just like variety collectors, she loves everyone <u>on her side of the fence as well.</u> LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467876[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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