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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ikandiggit, post: 977335, member: 16269&quot;]I have hundreds of coins in 2X2&#039;s that I have kept that originally I thought were errors. At first, I didn&#039;t have a complete understanding on how coins were manufactured. But with the patient assistance on many of the members, I pieced it together and now with the majority of coins I search, I can discard the ones with common anomalies because I can visualize how the &quot;error&quot; happened. </p><p><br /></p><p>Machine doubling was one that took a long time for me to understand. I fell into the ebay trap where anything is called an error. Md is mistaken for a doubled die and those that don&#039;t know any better fall for it and buy the coin for sometimes outrageous sums which actually has nothing more than face value. The more you understand, the less mistakes you&#039;ll make and you&#039;ll be able to educate novices. </p><p><br /></p><p>A while ago there was a thread debating the &quot;poor man&#039;s doubled die&quot;. This is a coin that is not an error but because it was advertised as such for so many years, it was mistakenly accepted as one. It&#039;s a figment of a salesman&#039;s imagination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t72009/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t72009/">http://www.cointalk.com/t72009/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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