How Many 1969 S DDO Do You Think Are Still Out In The Wild?

my76strat,
I sure did. I made the correction. Thanks!

Wow, thanks for all the interesting info and the story!! Ken, so you think there were only a couple thousand made due to the EDS?

The nickel I posted is a cast counterfeit, there is a seam on the rim of the coin, weights slightly less then a real one, and when dropped sounds different, also sent it to a couple of coin collectors and posted it on facebook groups and all agree its a cast counterfeit :)

Thank you Ken Potter, a great read indeed. People like you are needed more and more in this hobby.

I forgot that John Wexler published the story on the Counterfeit 1969 doubled die in the February 28,1981 issue of Error-Variety News. I own the reprint rights to EVN and if I can find that issue will scan it in and post it.

If you found a bag of these (out of 5,000 you might have hundreds) would you speak up and sell them off at random and flood the market? The price would drop drastically. So then you would be discrete about it. I know of a collector who bought a box of cents and there were so many DDOs/DDRs he will see selling them for years to come. He mailed me a roll of them and there was 19 DDOs out of 50 in that roll. So you sell them off slowly.

I once purchased two rolls of 1964-D Kennedy half dollars. 19 of the coins were RPM-002 and 20 were DDO-001 (Tripled Die). One coin was a more minor DDO. I purchased several boxes of 2009 FY cents for resale and peeked through the holes in the box and saw a few of the rolls had one of the top varieties so I opened the box. It contained over 1000 doubled dies spread out among seven different dies, with most being from one of two dies. The box only contained two of the Skeleton Fingers.

On the 1969-S, one way we can ascertain that most were probably destroyed (if many were made) is the absence of any quantity being found in any of the bags or rolls. The most I'm aware of in a roll is one coin. The fellow from Michigan who found two, found them in two separate rolls.

This was one of the ones in that roll:
http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/...ie_state=mds
There were other different varieties also in the roll beside this die number. (not part of the 19 mentioned)
There was a doubled die on the bust as well. Here is a side by side:

Note the ears and beard.