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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 7542143, member: 4920&quot;]What&#039;s that they say about ignorance, it&#039;s bliss? No wonder they&#039;re happy to collect these. A doubled die is a repeatable error. Every coin struck on that die is going to come out that way. It&#039;s only when the error is caught or the die otherwise retired that the mintage is sealed. Strike doubling is caused by movement of the planchet in the collar, that&#039;s all. It&#039;s not repeatable. No two are the same. No one can find the one another found. No one can categorize them because they&#039;re all different. I save them when they&#039;re extreme because I think they&#039;re cool. No high-powered scope required. But I don&#039;t lose sight of what they are. The Mints are literally banging out hundreds, even thousands, a minute. The collars loosen from all that banging. Those loosened planchets rattle around and are cut imperfectly for it. Go ahead, collect it. Pay extra for it, even, that&#039;s your business. But find it, if you look hard enough, on just about every coin minted, somewhere on the coin, as a perfect cut is rather the exception than the rule. And that&#039;s the difference that makes all the difference. It&#039;s why die doubling is collectable, and strike doubling isn&#039;t, to any knowledgeable collector.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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