die variety joy and sorrow

[JKK]

Sorrow: realizing that one's 1864 MS-62 RB piece which looked like it might be a double die, surely has only strike doubling. At least this time I didn't get all excited.

 

Joy: reading one's copy of Vol. 1 of the Cherrypicker's Guide (purchased from user physics-fan3.14, who was very prompt and with whom I would do business again tomorrow) and finding an outstanding explanation of double dies, dividing them by different types and explaining how they occur(red). Now I understand much more about strike doubling, why it should be called strike doubling rather than machine doubling, and how it differs from a true double die.

[cpm9ball]

In 2005, I thought I had found a doubled die on a CA SQ. I sent it to Billy Crawford for examination. It turned out that my excitement was premature because it was just machine doubling. At about the same time, I was also getting interested in Morgan VAM's, but I still didn't know how to distinguish between true die doubling and machine doubling. Now, after looking at hundreds of examples of both, it has become much easier.

 

Chris

[physics-fan3.14]

Glad to help. In my early searches for varieties, I got all excited about a few and later found out that they weren't anything more than MDD. Heck, I still see things and get excited, only later, after studying it a bit more, to find out that its strike doubling.