double die?

sammydabull

well latley ive been trying to recognize the different types of DD's but seem to never get it right. everyone i think is a DD turns out to be a machine DD and not worth any premium......

Heres another for you guys to take a look at, throw up your input of type of DD.

Cheers!


1999-P JEFFERSON NICKEL

Agflyer

I'm thinking machine doubling. I don't see any serif splits and machine doubling has the "step down" appearance that your photo does.

coppercoins

Definitely machine doubling.

Try buying an attributed doubled die or two, study those so you know what you're looking at, then go from there. That's what I eventually did to learn the whole thing a little better...I ended up spending a fourth of a ten year old collection because I hadn't learned it well enough by photos alone, and had been accumulating a lot of junk among the few nice ones I had found. Once I had the real deal in hand from a reputable source, I knew exactly what to look for from then on...basically my eye for it snapped into place.

sammydabull

ok, thats sounds like a good idea, ill have to keep my eye open for some in my budget range

coppercoins

Quite a number of doubled dies can be had in nice shape for under $10. It doesn't have to be something major. Even some of the CPG listed doubled dies are available for well under $20.