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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 7752847, member: 4920&quot;]Toward the end of the turn of the century, I don&#039;t recall precisely when, the Mint moved to single-squeeze hubbings to produce the dies, on the theory the images would be &quot;cleaner.&quot; By that, I mean, &quot;not doubled.&quot; It made sense. Squeeze it just once, how can it miss the mark? There&#039;s no&nbsp; mark to hit. What they forgot about is the slipping and sliding and twisting and tilting and turning and skidding and hopping and shaking and rocking and rolling, basically, the new single-squeeze technology was amenable to. That left secondary images, which were all collectively lumped with the preexisting term, &quot;doubled die.&quot; Preliminary to that, in the double-squeeze era, there were two hubbings. The dies were reheated, then re-squeezed. That was necessary to achieve the requisite depth and definition into the die so it could be imparted to the coins later struck out by the die. When the two hubbings or squeezes were off from one another, that&#039;s when&nbsp; the &quot;doubled dies&quot; happened. And that&#039;s about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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