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Message:: [QUOTE="MatrixMP-9, post: 3991479, member: 93422"]Morris..."or some could look a little deeper"? Is that a knock on Chris comment? You can look deeper all day and it wont change the coin and how doubled dies come to be. those are zincolns and you can get all sorts of "cauliflower" anywhere on the coin. Doubled ear will look like 2 of the same exact shapes. Even if the second shape is only a very small portion of the first, it will be the same shape.. Thats the way a doubled die comes into existence. If its 2 different shapes (unless PMD or some other action) it cannot be a "doubled die". I might be thinking wrong but you cant get circles from a square kind of thing. I like using the play dough example because its easy to visualize. Press a Lincoln into playdough so that when you carefully remove it, you can see a perfect impression of lincolns ear. Now press the penny into the dough again 1 degree off from the first in any direction. If you look at the playdough now, you will see 2 of the same exact impressions (partial or full) of the ear....you wont see a big random blob above the ear and if you do, its not from the die being doubled. Think about the letters....this is why the experts always look for "split serifs" as a first clue. Theres 2 impressions in the die used to make the coin. 2 of the SAME impressions. and remember, doubled die is not a planchet thats struck twice. The actually die thats making the coin is where the mistake is,,,,,which is why you can look on variety vista and doubled die and see other "pieces of metal" that are the same (down to the cracks and chips) as the coin you are holding. Gotta try to wrap your head around how they are created and once you do that, it becomes more clear what is and isnt a doubled die.[/QUOTE]

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