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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 758403, member: 4350&quot;]030.3 has almost no visible doubling on the llo and cents although it is slight.&nbsp; The doubling is more evident on the lettering around the perimiter of the coin and is why the feet of the letters are thicker.</p><p><br /></p><p>030.5 has excellent splits on the ENTS of CENTS and some separation on the LLO. that matches up to your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this may indicate that you have another die variety that was labeled as 030.3 since the attributor would have noticed the thicker feet on the UNUM, for example. </p><p><br /></p><p>This has some &quot;hybrid&quot;&nbsp; attributes.&nbsp; Your coin has the thicker feet and the stronger doubling such as that on the LLO of 030.5.</p><p><br /></p><p>So a new suggestion is that your coin and all the rest,&nbsp; since if they screw up one , they will screw them all up, is possibly something altogether different. </p><p><br /></p><p>keep in mind that if the same grader and the same grading company gets a piece of paper saying that the coins are one thing,&nbsp; based upon the submitter,&nbsp; and they see something close to what they should be looking for....the coins are going to end up in a slab incorrectly labeled.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin definitely does not have the doubling on the LLO of MONTICELLO to be 030.3</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way,&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen numerous slabs from major graders that had the labeling wrong.&nbsp; I&#039;ve also known of people to send in major Doubled dies that are easily identifiable and that are listed in the Cherrypicker&#039;s guide and have them come back as not even being a die variety even when the submitter indicated the page number in the CP guide.&nbsp; One specific one was a 1994 DDR Lincoln cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my humble opinion, with respect to die varieties,&nbsp; some of the major graders are not sure of what they are looking at.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also seen coins graded as errors or die varieties placed in slabs by major graders that are machine doubled coins or that are coins that have been faked.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never look at a slabbed die variety without questioning the label.&nbsp; They get the simple ones,&nbsp; but they often seem to have a little &quot;difficulty&quot; with the more complicated ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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