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 Posted 01/24/2008  7:13 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Cannonman17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
The second five appears to be shadowed but it's probably my imagination and/or die chatter right?

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 Posted 01/24/2008  7:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Lucky_13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I know its not a DDO..double die obverse
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 Posted 01/24/2008  7:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cannonman17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Okay, I wanted to check and make sure before tossing it in the bag with the others. Thanks-
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 Posted 01/24/2008  7:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Because of the big doubled die for 1955, the theory that the ones like yours would be called "Poor mans doubled die." This is a misnomer as it is not a doubled die. This is extreme die wear. This happened on a lot of 1953-55 Cents. The dies were showing such wear that the edge of the number facing the rim appears doubled. Not just die wear. If you check other devices on the same coins you will not extreme wear on obverses and most reverses show the extreme wear on the them as well. But if you saved a big number of these, you would still be a poor man. Newbies buy them till they catch on they are being taken advantage of.
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In one roll of BU Cents I found 19 of them out of 50. I checked to see if the markers matched and most were from different dies. So it happened on several dies. The big 1955 DDO was on only one die. Popularity/demand make this coin a high priced one.
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01/25/2008 09:23 am
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 Posted 01/25/2008  09:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppercoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not die chatter, just die wear.
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