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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 717307, member: 16510&quot;]<b>No, no, no I&#039;m trying to get at the heart of the problem.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No, no, no I&#039;m trying to get at the heart of the problem.&nbsp; I don&#039;t even need or want photos or coins.&nbsp; Newbies that are interested in learning should have no trouble finding this.</p><p>What I want is for a person to vocalize what they are having a problem with specifict to understanding doubled dies.</p><p>I want people to start to ask what we ask when we look at a coin.</p><p>When I see a coin with some form of doubling on it I first rule out other forms of doubling from doubled dies.&nbsp; I suspect that is not what new persons are doing - they see something and they forgo that very process I just mentioned.&nbsp; I want new persons to think deeper about it.</p><p>Instead of hey &quot;I see doubling it might be a doubled die&quot; I want them to learn to rule out other forms of doubling.&nbsp; That&#039;s the point of very specifict questions, to get them to think.</p><p><b>I&#039;m suspecting that most new folks see doubling and say it might be a doubled die, or it looks sort of like a doubled die I saw, I&#039;ll post a photo and see what others think if I found a treasure.</b></p><p><b>In other words I think a major part of the confusion over learning how to tell true doubled dies may be just that people are skipping the very thing they will sooner of later have to understand because it&#039;s so easy with all this technowlegy at hand.&nbsp; To put it another way in this case it may be the easy portion of high tech is holding them back and frustrating the rest of us because we can&#039;t seem to get though - were skipping a fundamental and didn&#039;t even know it!</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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