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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Treashunt, post: 165725, member: 6763&quot;]Mike is correct, you cannot believe everything that you see on a slab.</p><p>Recently I wrote to a seller (Ebay) who was selling a &#039;slabbed&#039; coin (from a real low-budget slabber) listed and slabbed as a 1858/7 Flying eagle.</p><p>&nbsp; Nice coin, except that the piece was a small letter 1858, and the 1858/7 is on the large letters Flying Eagle cent.</p><p>&nbsp; I wrote to him (the seller) and broke the news. Strangely (no surprise) I never got a reply.</p><p>So, the lesson is: believe what you know is correct.</p><p>&nbsp; Many of the so called double dies are strike doubling. There are some early Barber quarters with strike doubling that is very deceptive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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