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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 2270693, member: 4920&quot;][USER=76204]@PennyHappy[/USER], that&#039;s good explanation on that second scan of the reverse, as it shows where you&#039;re thinking. This is what you need to do. You need to visualize the way a doubled die is made. Visualize a first impression, then a second impression over that first impression, but that&#039;s just a hair off to where you can still see part of that first impression showing. The &quot;top&quot; impression will be the second impression, can you visualize that? The first impression will underlie that second, partially covered by that second.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, hold that visualization, and understand, that &quot;top&quot; impression will always be fully-intact in a doubled die. Does that make sense? What is going to distort that second impression? Nothing, as it was the last impression, i.e., there were no other impressions after it. Now, look at that part of the O in ONE. Do you notice how it&#039;s not &quot;full&quot; all around? Do you know why that is? A part of it was &quot;taken&quot; or &quot;borrowed&quot; to form the underlying impression. That was due to a hop, a skip, or a jump when that planchet was struck to make that coin. It&#039;s what we call &quot;strike doubling.&quot; That first reverse you show has some of that going on, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both those reverses are strike doubled, although to different degrees. Why? The &quot;top&quot; impressions aren&#039;t fully-intact. They&#039;re rather foreshortened, compromised, taken or borrowed from, to form those &quot;bottom,&quot; underlying impressions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, under the building, that&#039;s post-mint damage. Put away those reverse scans and try to get us clearer, sharper obverses. If you want to know. If you can&#039;t, there are no hard feelings, but we just can&#039;t tell you. That&#039;s just the way it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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