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raptor7s New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 02/25/2008 2:40 pm Was is normal for the 1982D Quarter to have a narrow I in America? The upper image is the 82D, while the lower one is an 84D for comparison. Thanks. Image: wq1.jpg 84.54 KB Report this Post to the Staff

j_h_s Pillar of the Community United States 1934 Posts	Posted 02/26/2008 02:03 am raptor, would you post a few more pictures of other letters on the coin. I see Mechanical Doubling on the "C" and "A" next to the "I" you're asking about. Report this Post to the Staff
raptor7s New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 02/26/2008 09:27 am OK, here are a couple of other pictures. You will also notice a little doubling on the R. Note the distance between the R and the I. Image: qfullam.jpg 83.52 KB Image: qfwd.jpg 89.71 KB Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 02/26/2008 09:53 am It's not ' Mechanical Doubling', it's Machine Doubling. And the thinner letters are likely the result of overpolishing the die. Report this Post to the Staff
j_h_s Pillar of the Community United States 1934 Posts	Posted 02/26/2008 10:46 am Thanks, copper...i sat here at whatever a.m. this morning making my Libran guess whether it's Machine or Mechanical...on a 50/50 uneducated bet...i aint so good. Is there such a thing as "mechanical" doubling or is "machine" THE terminology? Jim Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 02/26/2008 11:11 am No such thing as " Mechanical Doubling". It's ALWAYS " Machine Doubling". Just like there's no such thing as a "double die" - it's ALWAYS "doubled die". I know these sound like flyspeck semantics, but I want the people I'm educating to use the proper terms, and to start off early is to start off well. If you learn and use the proper terms people are much more likely to take you seriously when it's your turn to do the educating. It's a lot like using proper English when writing. If you don't use basic punctuation, capitalization, and spelling rules when writing a professional paper, people are not likely to read it except to note the flaws. Report this Post to the Staff
collector001 New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 02/27/2008 11:25 am Years ago I noticed quarters 1980-D, 1981-D, 1982-D, 1983-D, and 1984-D all come with reverses where the letters, especially EPU, are quite thin. The field on these quarters is also much more reflective than normal quarters. The same thinness appears on the proof quarters of these same years. I can not say if this represents a new reverse die variety or not. I sent an example to Cion World Collector Clearinghouse and they came to the conclusion that this was caused by overpolishing. This may be true but I believe there is more to the story. Why only at the Denver mint? Also the numbers are quite high. For 1983-D about 40% of finds in my area have this "variety". The art work does seem to be the same, although I haven't studied this for some years. The question that still interest me is, were the proof dies prepared differently enough to change the appearance of the art work and were some of these dies used for circulation strikes like the type B reverse quarters of 1969-D through 1972-D? Whether or not they are a different variety I do have an example in my collection. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 02/27/2008 1:17 pm Designs on Cents vary from year to year on both obverse and reverse. Some style changes were used for one year or for several years. This could be true on Quarters also. (I'm a Cent man myself) But on the 1980 Quarters the bust is different sizes for different years. The best way to see if yours is normal is to compare it to others examples from the same year/mint mark. Differences may occur, but view other coins that are BU will help you determine if this is just part of the norm for that year/mint mark. When you compare coins with others years, you will note differences. but if they are the way they were made, no extra value for them is associated. Report this Post to the Staff
livingdinasaur Pillar of the Community United States 1571 Posts	Posted 02/27/2008 2:39 pm Thnink of MD this way: The MACHINE does the doubling, NOT the Mechanic. Dick Report this Post to the Staff
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