1955 Lincoln Cent DDO Die 1 With Laminations - Genuine ANACS MS 60 Details. Only One Known To Exist?

May well be one of a kind but it only has one error.
For many collectors the damage and lamination may greatly reduce the desirability of your coin.
The market will decide how collectible it is.
The Lamination is an error, the DDO is a variety, and the recoloring is damage.

I'm sure it is rare, the problem is it might be a hard sell. The 1955 doubled die cent is a bucket lister for most Lincoln Cent collectors, and almost all will only ever buy one. The collectors that do buy one are going to want the best and most visually appealing coin they can get, the lamination would be a detriment in this case. I'm not saying there isn't a high dollar error collector somewhere who would want it but it is a very, very small market.

Posting to continue watching the thread. Apparently the two threads were merged and both of my posts were removed in the process (leading to dangling quotes and references in other posts). Unfortunately I no longer have the text of either post, so I cannot give the links I originally provided.

Honestly the way they labeled it "laminations" with recolored isn't a plus to any buyer. It's like they are both reasons for the MS60 grade. You've got a tough sell on your hands imo.

You should post a picture of the slab in your listing.

The slab is there, you just have to scroll down through the pictures.

Good afternoon,

After thinking things over, I decided to just keep my rare ANACS authentic, unique, major 'variety' 1955 DDO "Die 1", combined with significant lamination 'errors', and 'damaged' (recolored) to pass on to a family member in my last will and testament.

I knew a fella years ago, that was a PCGS grader. He indicated that there was one or more products that can be used 'safely' to remove the 'recoloring'. I believe that these products were quite expensive, but that he had used them on rare coins, sent them directly to PCGS for grading/slabbing, and they all came back problem-free. I think that the one product was a coin 'rinse', and the other product was a coin 'conditioner'. Anyways, he had great success purchasing 'problem' coins like mine, and had great success with PCGS, coming back problem-free, and assigned an official grade.

So, I will be ending my listing on ebay since there is actually little, to no interest.

I want to give you ALL a sincere thanks for helping me out throughout these questions and answers.

* Please feel free to 'delete' my thread(s), since it is just an unimportant topic, an other, more important topics can take it's place.

Thanks again... it's been a real pleasure.

God bless you all, and our nation, as we face these hard times in our economy.

Sincerely,

RJS

It is definitely worth keeping, this coin! It's way better than my '55 DDO-001. As it doesn't exist..