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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4865289, member: 66&quot;]In this case the DIE was an error, but the coins struck from it are a variety.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Impressive but not legendary, because no one knows about it unless they&#039;ve visited the Superintendents office.&nbsp; The 43 copper cent is legendary because pretty much every collector knows about it and so do a very large number of non-collectors</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Double was correct at one time, but the language has improved as the understanding of how it was created was better understood and the correct term now is doubled die.&nbsp; When the 1955 DDO cents were first discovered the standard explanation was that they had been double struck.&nbsp; As it was learned/realized that it was struck just once and that it was the die that had the double image it evolved into doubled die.&nbsp; So it evolved from Double die (struck twice by the die) to doubled die (struck by a die that had a doubled image).</p><p><br /></p><p>And the egg came first.&nbsp; Eggs were being laid LONG before the first chicken ever came along.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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