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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 110687, member: 66&quot;]The fact that the initials show clear separation is conclusive that it is mechanical doubling and not die doubling.&nbsp; The key is that the initials are incuse on the coin.&nbsp; Since they are incuse they are formed by a raised feature on the die and when the die shifts it creates (punches) a second seperated image into the coin.&nbsp; (Just as happens to a die during the creation of a doubled die.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was caused by hub doubling, think about what would happen to the initials in the die during the hubbing.&nbsp; During the first hubbing the die blank would fill the void in the hub to create the RAISED initials on the die.&nbsp; Then when the second, offset, hubbing takes place the raised initials on the die would not fit back into the void in the hub and would instead be FLATTENED out by the hub during the second squeeze.&nbsp; The result would be a doubled die with ONE raised set of initials (possibly wth areas of higher relief where the two images overlapped) and one set of flattened distorted initials (if they even appeared at all) where they did not overlap.&nbsp; A coin struck from such a doubled die would NOT show the raised seperated doubled image that we are used to associating with a hub doubled die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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