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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1568043, member: 112&quot;]But are they very rare ? Is it even possible for them to be rare ? I really don&#039;t see how.</p><p><br /></p><p>Consider, the coins with the miniscule doubling that can only be seen with extreme magnification are all modern coins. And they are all the result of single squeeze hubbing. And with single squeeze hubbing, having a doubled die is not supposed to even be possible. That is part of the reason that the mint switched over to single squeeze hubbing, to negate the possibility of doubled dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>And since pretty much all modern dies strike a million coins or more - how can one of those that is doubled ever be considered to be rare ? The doubling is on the die, so every coin produced by that doubled die has the doubling. So there are huge numbers of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now consider, you are an error collector, and one day a friend comes over and you decide to share your collection with him. You get your coins out and he looks at all of your examples of double die coins. With the older examples it&#039;s easy to see the doubling, no magnification or anything is required. But then you get to the modern examples, those were the result of single squeeze hubbing. Your friend looks at the coins and comments - hey, I can&#039;t see any doubling on these coins. You point and say it&#039;s right there, and he says well I can&#039;t see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You then say, just a minute, and you go into the other room and come back with a microscope, put the coin on the stand and focus the microscope. The say, look there, right along the edge of the columns, see that second line ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry, but gimme a break ! There are hundreds of thousands if not a million or more of these things out there, the doubling is so tiny, so miniscule you need a microscope to even see it, and yet people get all excited because it&#039;s a doubled die coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the kind of coins I am talking about. And to me, it&#039;s ridiculous - to me. If it is not ridiculous to you, or to anybody else, then more power to ya. If that is what you like, have at it. But my opinion shall not change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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