Hello I Am New Here From Virginia With Question

The short answer is because some (fool) will pay for wavy steps and not MD. Although I don't think people are paying all that much for trail dies/wavy steps...

to CCF.

I agree that rarity doesn't always matter. Although I personally feel it should have more pull in the price. But If that was so rotated dies and Cuds would be worth more than they are. I do have to say though MD is way more common. I can go through a roll of pennies and find one or to with MD but I won't find any doubled dies. Then again I have found around 100 Doubled dies and only 2 rotated dies so which one is more rare ?

I agree md is easier to find maybe because not alot of people collect them,i do know the stronger the double strike or even a triple strike is hard to find but in all the books these people write they push for people not to collect them which isn't right.an error coin is what it is an error.

Why is it that there are so many people who post in this section that have never come across a genuine doubled die? How many times have folks posted coins with Machine Doubling? The reason you see so many fewer doubled dies is because they are a lot rarer. I like Machine Doubling, chips, and cracks. Truth is none of those are actual errors or varieties. They are something that happens over the life of a die. A doubled die was there from the very first coin it struck. So becasuse of that it makes that die differnt from what is supposed to be. The anomolies you are referring to are gaining popularity. But is pretty hard to assign a reasonable value that is unique. Machine Doubling will not be the same on any two coins. Similar yes. The same, no. Cracks and chips get bigger and change shape as the life of the die progresses.

Keep in mind, sellers do not dictate the value of an item. That value is determined by what the buyer is willing to pay.

No, because die life varies from die to die. Some doubled dies are spotted and polished away. There is no way to get good solid numbers.

Thanks Seal. In hindsight if they have not found all 24 1894S Barber dimes yet that was probably a dumb question :).

Trail dies are a die issue, not a striking issue.
They are not considered hub doubling, but an anomaly that happens during the creation of the die.
Thus trail dies and Wavy steps are not hub doubling, but a die issue which makes them collectable.
Machine Doubling is a striking issue and the dies are normal. Hope this helps.
Wavy steps and trail dies are always the same, strike by strike. Unlike machine damage that happens randomly.

It is the culture of the coin collecting community. Things like Machine Doubling have been thought of as damage because it happens during the strike process. Whereas hub doubling occurs on the die prior to the striking process. It is called a "die variety" because that die now has something different than the other dies. The culture , I feel, is changing. The new generation of collector is finding things like machine doublig, die cracks, and die chips fascinating. They are becoming popular enough to start creating a market. It will take some time, but it will happen. Heck, douled dies and RPMs were once considered damage.