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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 506048, member: 66&quot;]Nice article, good pictures, I don&#039;t agree with some of his conclusions and I think some of his information is in error.&nbsp; His description of how the dies were made is accurate for up to the late 1830&#039;s, maybe in a few cases early 1840&#039;s (By the late 1830&#039;s positional variation of the lettering ends, but the use of working hubs and working dies did not come into use until the the late 1860&#039;s. Before that time every die was a &quot;master die&quot; and if the lettering had been punched by hand variation would still have been the order of the day.)&nbsp; No way was it done that way to 1886 (with the possible exception of some pattern dies.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Longacre doubling does NOT stop appearing in 1886, I have seen examples of it in Indian head cents as late as 1907.&nbsp; It does become less common though.</p><p><br /></p><p>The doubling he shows on the dates is not true Longacre doubling but it is created&nbsp; by roughly the same effect.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I have never noticed Longacre doubling to be rounded.&nbsp; That which I have seen is typically flat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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