DDO's ? 1962,1963-D,1970-S,2007

Really can't tell anything without seeing it much closer. As for the 'missing dies' - well, I will eventually get to them, but they are far off in the future. I have a LOT of other things to catch up on first.

Think of it this way...if the doubling you are trying to show isn't bltantly obvious to you in your images, chances are that nobody else will be able to use them for anything. Making the same images larger doesn't help. Changing your technique/equipment/lighting - some combination of these will help.

Bryan, thats what I just did, I took the light and moved it all around the coin then closer and farther away. Here is a try at the 1962-




I am going to try some diffused light after dinner.

I think that is my problem, I convince myself that there is something there
when there really isn't. Well at least I hope others are learning from this and I am
not just wasting bandwidth.

Could you recommend a couple inexpensive DDO's to purchase? Are you putting any up on the SLCC auction next month? I won a few of yours last time.

I empathize with you, CHRSB!
Way back about 15 years ago when the original edition of the Cherrypicker's Guide first came out, I purchased it, read it from cover to cover, memorized lots of the listed varieties. No one was more conscientious than I. Coincidentally, that was one of the years I attended the ANA summer seminar in Colorado Springs.

In conjunction with the seminar, there was also a very small coin show, which I attended. This is where I found my first doubled die. It happened to be FS 012. (1960 Franklin half proof) Though I had studied the book diligently, I had never before seen in person a true doubled die. When I looked at it, I'm talking to myself, like is THAT it? It doesn't look like what I expected. (even though it looked exactly like the photo in the book) The raised and rounded images are what fooled me. Now, this one is a little more subtle DDO, so it was a good first test for me. I mean, for example, anyone can see the 1955 cent DDO. I think up to that point, even with all my reading, I still had in my mind's eye a concept of that flat and shelflike Machine Doubling being true doubling. But once I saw the real deal, I was off to the races.

Now, the cool part of this story is that the two authors of the Cherrypicker's Guide happened to be in the room at the same time I bought this 1960 proof set at the regular price. They were teaching a class that year at the seminar. I sheepishly approached one of them (I recognized them from their pictures in the book) to tell him that I thought I'd found the 1960 Franklin proof DDO. He looked for 2 seconds and said, yep, that's it, I have yet to find one myself, he said. They were both so hearty with their congratulations I felt like I'd just climbed Mt. Everest!

So, I guess my story has 2 points.

1. If you see J. T. Stanton, Bill Fivaz, or Charles or any variety expert at the same small coin show, don't despair, no one person can look at everything!
2. As Charles has said, once you see a few real doubled die coins, you'll quickly learn to tell the difference, though of course, some are more difficult than others.

I need some sort of scope myself. I'm sure that subject has been talked about here many times, but, since I just recently tuned back in, maybe someone could give a recommendation? Reasonably priced, and I guess something that one can take pictures through. Thanks!