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<p>[QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 825177, member: 16510"]Your original posting did not "bother me" in the least and <b>I am sorry for not making that clear to you, the original poster! I should have, my bad!</b></p><p>Yes, of course I looked at #804 but didn't need to to know that your coin was not a doubled die. When I went and looked at it was after a follow up or two stating that they thought it was #804 - I was shocked that it was missed and missed so badly that I thought "what am I missing here, let me go look at that bad boy", and then it got worse. That's why I went and checked, I thought for folks to have this one so off "I gotta look and see, maybe I'm wrong about something here". It then was even more amazingly wrong that anyone looking at the photos of your coin compared to #804 in the Cherry Pickers Guild could possibly think they look alike - I'm still stunned. That is why I provided 6 reasons in detail to tell the difference between the two coins. They may look alike to you but to anyone studying doubled dies they do not.</p><p>"I did not say doubling on obverse of the coin I said doubling on both sides of the lettering". I should have added rev. lettering. An early lession in coins that are not true doubled dies is having doubling on both sides of the lettering.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 825177, member: 16510"]Your original posting did not "bother me" in the least and [B]I am sorry for not making that clear to you, the original poster! I should have, my bad![/B] Yes, of course I looked at #804 but didn't need to to know that your coin was not a doubled die. When I went and looked at it was after a follow up or two stating that they thought it was #804 - I was shocked that it was missed and missed so badly that I thought "what am I missing here, let me go look at that bad boy", and then it got worse. That's why I went and checked, I thought for folks to have this one so off "I gotta look and see, maybe I'm wrong about something here". It then was even more amazingly wrong that anyone looking at the photos of your coin compared to #804 in the Cherry Pickers Guild could possibly think they look alike - I'm still stunned. That is why I provided 6 reasons in detail to tell the difference between the two coins. They may look alike to you but to anyone studying doubled dies they do not. "I did not say doubling on obverse of the coin I said doubling on both sides of the lettering". I should have added rev. lettering. An early lession in coins that are not true doubled dies is having doubling on both sides of the lettering.[/QUOTE]
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