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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 827739, member: 16510&quot;]That&#039;s not <b>all you said</b> -this is also what you said - </p><p><i>&quot;Therefore in most cases a doubled die is no more rare than a coin which exhibits normal charcteristics&quot;.&nbsp; </i>That is nuts or I completely fail to understand your logic which is a possibilty.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does not matter even if the doubled die DDO-001 for 1980-P struck 1,000,000 coins even if they shattered the die in pieces on the mint floor it would still be much rarer that a normally struck coin for that year/date/mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are also way off base in your asumption that <b>most doubled dies</b> went even as much 30,000 coins struck from that die.&nbsp; </p><p>Let me site 1917-P, 1958-P, the recent 1982-P reverse, how about 1995-D #3 Lincoln&#039;s - the 1961-Proof Franklen, 1971-P DDR-001 Washinton Quarter or many Proof doubled dies as few as a 1000 or wayyyyy less.&nbsp; I could fill this page 5 times over citing doubled dies as so few known.&nbsp; Yes they could have been stuck and just not found yet but guess what, they weren&#039;t. </p><p>Many majors were probably just a few dozen to a few hundred before the forman retired the die. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Even if disscussion the minor doubled dies it was, in fact still just 1 doubled working die and that makes all coins struck from that die rare as compared to all coins or dies made for coins in a given year that are normally struck.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You may have worded your first post incorrectly, that is the only explanation I can think of, or I may fail to see your logic but doubled dies of any and all years are rarer that their normally struck counterparts - there is no comparison at all except for master die doubling.&nbsp; That&#039;s your only out here, you should take it now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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