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First off - it's NOT an error - it's a die variety, and there is a BIG difference between the two.
Secondly - ANYONE who says they opened a fresh roll of coins and ALL of them were a doubled die - is simply mistaken or lying. That does not happen...and never has. The mint operated a number of machines at once, and all the resulting coins were dumped into huge bins before being bagged. Once bagged, they were sent to the Fed Reserve in bags, which would distribute them to banks that had rolling machines. The chances of ALL 50 coins in a 1955 roll being doubled dies would be so astronomically high, it could easily be written off as all but impossible.
The MOST of any one die I have EVER found in a fresh roll is 28. That's just over half of them, and that was VERY unusual.
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Voice or reason again coppercoins! Personally I've always written these stories off as urban legend. Sorry but the skeptic in me is strong.
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Again, I'm not saying the story is true, but then who am I to argue that it isn't. I wasn't there, so I can't deny that it's untrue. I was just relaying a story told to me. Yes I will agree, the odds of that are astronomical, but stranger things have happened.
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Bedrock of the Community
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As far as I know, all of the 1955 DDOs were distributed in the New England area. If you hear someone telling a story about finding a roll at their gas station register in Arizona, it is probably a tall tale  Mintage is estimated at 20-25,000 coins so there could only ever be 400-500 full rolls possible but in reality, they were swimming in a sea of millions of other 1955s. |
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Again, I'm not saying the story is true, but then who am I to argue that it isn't. I wasn't there, so I can't deny that it's untrue. I was just relaying a story told to me. Yes I will agree, the odds of that are astronomical, but stranger things have happened. Hey, the story of Star Wars is not true, but that does not mean I do not like hearing it.  |
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i grew up in central illinois .i remember going to the candy store with my cousin.i had five shiny new pennies.i remember showing my cousin this weird penny.it was a doubled 1955 penny.i preceeded to purchase my candy with it.i was 5 yrs old.
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Oh man... Imagine that.
I'm going to have to give my grand parents a call and see if they collect any piggy banks or anything...
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Pillar of the Community
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Coppercoins replacing folklore , stories , myths with truths.....
That should be in your sig chuck
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Another '55 doubled die story:
I heard that the owner of my local coin store found one of these on the ground when he was a boy, thought it looked funny, and proceded to throw it into a river.
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Wait wait... Coppercoins - are you saying that you opened a roll of 28 55' Double Die Lincolns?
If so, can I have one? I'll buy it from you at 500 times face value! ;)
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Umm, no. That statement said nothing to the effect.
I said, the most of any one die I have ever found in a fresh roll was 28.
It happened to be a 1960D repunched mintmark.
Actually the "typical" original roll only contains 4-10 coins from each die. So if you were to ever find a roll of 1955 cents that contain the doubled die, your chances are best of finding between 4 and 10 of them in the roll. Anything more than ten coins from any single die in a roll would be unusual.
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Hey, the story of Star Wars is not true, but that does not mean I do not like hearing it. WHAT? You mean Star War stories ane not real? Just how do you know? Have you been there?  Quote:
I do not have personal knowledge that this story is accurate, although I would be clueless as to why the person who told it to me would have any reason to lie to me. Anyhow, here goes. And why not? In many instances a story like that starts out with someone finding one 1955 poor man's Double Die. As the story is retold, it turns into many of them, then all real Double Dies and eventually all BU, right from the Mint. They were done that way by the MESS department of the Mint. That is the Mint Error Secret Service department. They are responsible for the creating, distributiing and publicizing Mint Errors to the public. However, to add to this type of story, a person I know that has the job of cleaning up a bar (tavern) at the end of the day, told me how he used to always find all kinds of wierd coins on the floor and many were doubled. All just went to the bank though. He tells me it is the real, real truth but I wonder if working in a bar has something to do with what he saw. |
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WHAT? You mean Star War stories ane not real? Just how do you know? Have you been there? Yes. Yes I was there. It was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. I saw no such activity. |
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Myth or not I was there in 55 when one of the old guys at our coin meeting was passing them out. I don't know how many he had but it was more than 4.
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