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Found at a coin show yesterday; I now have two of these.  This was in plain view in a $4 2x2. I can only guess the dealer doesn't look for die varieties.   |
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That one is so obvious that even I might have noticed it! Then again, I probably would have assumed it was Machine Doubling because I still have a hard time telling the two apart. |
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Yes, perhaps the dealer thought it was MD too.
In this case, a very good marker are the doubled serifs on the "E", which are very clearly separated. The same goes for the "C", but it's harder to see in this photo.
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Some dealers don't look for variety. I went into a coin shop the other day and tried talking to the owner about a VAM I have. He acted as if he didn't know what I was talking about. I asked him if he had ever been to the VAMworld website and he said he'd never heard of it. This wasn't a small coin shop either. I thought VAM was common terminology in the Coin World. I was able to pick up a couple of 1889's with die chips for pretty cheap. |
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WoW!  Nice Find Kurt! |
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Thanks! It was a lot of fun to spot this, because as I went through a binder page of '87, I thought of this DDO--and there it was!  |
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now see, if I had submitted that,,it would have been MD.....lol
nice find, jealous
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wrongalot sai, "now see, if I had submitted that,,it would have been MD.....lol
nice find, jealous"
That's funny, mate.
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Richard, You know...I'm actually rather certain ; the markers are plainly visible on that big pic. Those are good resources, but I do know the difference between "Longacre doubling" and MD, etc. Thanks for all your comments! My other example is exactly the same--and verified by Rick Snow himself. Anybody is free to compare these coins to the markers in the attribution guides--I'm not going to go through a long-winded analysis here, lol. In case you're curious, here's my XF-45 copy of the S-1 DDO:  Edited by KurtS
02/05/2008 1:29 pm
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