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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 787857, member: 16510"]I too was in it in the 60's and 70's and got back into to it heavy in the 1990's, I too was in it in the 60's and 70's and got back into to it heavy in the 1990's, What got me in to it was a quarter I got in change at Kroger, it looked funny.  The reverse had very thick lettering and looked doubled.  I took it to some coin shops and they said it had mechanical/machine type doubling and was common but something about it kept bothering me.  So I found out about doubled dies a bit and sent it to J. Wexler and it turned out to be one of the, probably the rarest Washinton Quarter doubled dies there is know, 1971-P DDR-001 with only 6 known (or still known) and mine was the highest graded one.  Made Coin World, Numismatic News and the rest is history!Now finding and selling doubled dies and other die varieties is about 40% of my hobby.Two things I learned and learned well:1. Most coin dealers, even long in the buisness coin dealers know very little about true doubled dies.  They know the "Red Book" ones and that's about it.2. Trust your gut, it rarely tell you a lie!!![/QUOTE]