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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jallengomez, post: 1722595, member: 19748&quot;]Die markers can be used to help match up a variety to a certain stage of the die&#039;s life, but keep in mind that the true pick-up points, and the validation is the doubled die itself.&nbsp; Die markers are not a fixed property of the die.&nbsp; They come and go over the life of the die and can be influenced by polishing, clashing of the dies, deterioration of the dies, and/or damage.&nbsp; Take for instance the 1955 doubled die.&nbsp; For years, we only knew of the stage A markers and a few years ago someone found a stage B specimen.&nbsp; You can see in the following link just how drastic the die markers are between the two stages.&nbsp; Keep in mind that some varieties make it the entire life of the die without being pulled from production, and those can go through several stages of markers.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.doubleddie.com/302101.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.doubleddie.com/302101.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.doubleddie.com/302101.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are some coins that I would not purchase without good photos, but if you know how to tell true varieties from the worthless stuff, sometimes poor pictures can be to your advantage.&nbsp; I&#039;ve cherry-picked several nice varieties off of Ebay when the seller didn&#039;t even know they had a variety and the photos were poor enough that it wasn&#039;t obvious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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