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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;croesus_amok, post: 25015587, member: 151299&quot;]I have spent a lot of time the past week looking closely at Buffalo Nickels. I have a few questions trying to understand what I&#039;m seeing. I have spent a lot of time at VarietyVista.com and looking at examples online.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a close-up of two 1935 P nickels:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1601792[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My questions (which I know are dumb - but dumb is the only kind of questions I have) are:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Are the differences between the shape of the letters from Coin A to Coin B due to doubling or damage? For instance, the &#039;T&#039; in cents in the top example is noticeably thinner than the &#039;T&#039; in the bottom example.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Some examples I&#039;ve seen of doubling are quite obvious - i.e. the image is obviously doubled. Like <a href="http://www.varietyvista.com/03%20Buffalo%20Nickels/Doubled%20Die%20Photos/1935PDDR001b%20FIVE.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.varietyvista.com/03%20Buffalo%20Nickels/Doubled%20Die%20Photos/1935PDDR001b%20FIVE.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Others are more like a widening - such as <a href="http://www.varietyvista.com/03%20Buffalo%20Nickels/Doubled%20Die%20Photos/1935PDDR002a%20OF.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.varietyvista.com/03%20Buffalo%20Nickels/Doubled%20Die%20Photos/1935PDDR002a%20OF.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Are there any techniques or tips for distinguishing the nonobvious doubling from post-mint damage?</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Is the mint error that leads to these slight differences ubiquitous - i.e. is every set of coins produced from a die slightly different from every other die set? Or are these errors fairly unique?</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that is a lot of questions - I&#039;m just trying to learn. Thank you for any thoughts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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