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Message:: [QUOTE="jcuve, post: 700650, member: 13945"]    Here is another example: if you are selling a ’72 master doubled coin, and told buyers that 60% of all ’72 Lincolns display this doubling, why would anyone buy it? Tell them it is a listed doubled die, which it is, and minus out the unsavory details, and eventually someone who doesn’t know better will buy the coin.     Looking at both of these coins, if you are selling either a poor mans’ double die (PMDD), clearly a misnomer to begin with, or selling a ’72 Lincoln with master die doubling as a doubled die, they are both a “no win situation.” You can describe in every way possible what the coins are and are not, that they were old album filler coins, the history of the ’55 doubled die and anything else, but if say too much, no one will buy them, hold back a little and then only an ignorant buyer is going to purchase either coin. Of course if one person doesn’t sell the PMDDs, someone else will as the market for them doesn’t look like it will ever die. And finally looking at it another way, is it the seller’s problem that buyers don’t do a little research before they buy?    My feeling is you could do much worse, like try and sell a PMDD (or a machine doubled coin) for $50 in a fancy slab and make it seem to be a legitimate and rare doubled die or worse yet, knowingly sell Chinese counterfeit coins. [/QUOTE]