2012 Doubled Die Found

and with the way dies are made now, doubling is almost impossible.

Fuzzy...please explain how it is almost impossible to have a doubled die on newer coins...There are a couple nice ones for 2010 and 2011 cents...and how about the Duke Ellington Quarter?

I thought new dies are made with a lathe that grinds out the design from a blank. It makes one pass for the design, so unless the grinder was specifically programmed to make a pass for the date again, doubles would be almost impossible.

Nope, that's only how master hubs are made. Master dies, working hubs, and working dies are made by hubbing in a press. In the past, doubled dies occurred because hubbing required multiple passes to make a full impression, and in between passes, the die had to be removed from the press and softened in an annealing oven.

Around '96-'97, the mint started using a new process that only required a single squeeze, but it actually didn't stop the doubled dies from occurring. In fact, there may be more minor doubled dies now. It seems that they're caused by a shift occurring during the hubbing process.

There have been countless very minor doubled dies during the single-squeeze era - think of all the doubled column bars or statue knees on LMCs, or all the central design doubling on 2009 cent reverses. There have been a handful State Quarters with central doubling on the reverse as well, the DC quarter most notably. The 2005 "Ocean in View" nickel had a number of very minor examples of central doubling on the reverse, and there is a fairly strong doubled die for the obverse of the 2004-P "Peace Medal" nickel. There have also been some strong DDOs on cents in 2006 and 2011 and some more minor ones in other years as well.

Lonz: I got a Brinks box last Friday(18% copper),I have three of these out of that box.Maybe 100-150 2012's.

I see what might be a doubled die - but to me it's too minor.

Phili