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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 500757, member: 16510"]Not quite! For Pic-Nic that's not quite what I said. I said to be a certain variety it must look like that variety - see you were already identifying them as this or that die and what I meant was to be the this or that die it must look exactly like it. Many people esp. on eBay find a say 1983-P with minor mechanical doubling and claim it is 1983-P DDR-001 because the rev. is doubled.  Most certainly you will find new varieties if you keep searching - I have discovered over 200 new RPM's and doubled dies.Also, die state and crispness of a coins surface in of paramount importance to the variety collector after all it is the "thing that is visible" that is the whole enchilada - it is perfectly acceptable to collect anything you choose in any grade you choose but if you stay in varieties you will gravitate to the better grades - "that's what we want to see".Please remember "we are looking for one working die that was hubbed more than once or a mintmark was punched more than once" - we want to see it.Hope this helps,Ben[/QUOTE]