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1955-P Franklin DDO/R ?

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I bought a number of coins over the weekend from a dealer.One was a 1955-P Franklin.Upon closer inspection I found doubling on the obverse and the reverse,stronger on the obverse.Is this common or semi common with this type/year coin? I see nothing in the RedBook about it.

1955-P-Franklin-DDO/R-?

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First off, the Red Book is one of the worst places to look for possible die varieties. It only lists the top 5% of all known die varieties. Try http://www.conecaonline.org for listings of such things.

Secondly, I do not see any doubling in your images, so it would be impossible to tell without either better images or the coin itself - BUT - 99% of the time doubling turns out to be Machine Doubling. Search through the threads here for the difference.
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The CherryPickers Guide does not list a DDO or DDR for 1955 Franklins. However that doesn't mean there isn't one, just that its not one of the more common ones.

As Coppercoins pointed out follow his link to Coneca to see if they have a DDO or DDR listed.
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Minor correction:

The Cherrypicker's Guide doesn't just list the more "common" doubled dies. They list the most "popular" doubled dies, and some of them are extremely rare.

In percentages, the Red Book lists under 5% of the known die varieties (contrary to my previous post). It's actually closer to 0.5%.

The Cherrypicker's Guide lists around 5% of the known die varieties.

The CONECA website lists about 75% of all known die varieties, but is inherently flawed in that there are no images...so while you can see that they exist, you cannot see what they look like.

For Lincoln cents, coppercoins.com lists about 80% of all known die varieties and has images of over 50%, making it the most comprehensive online resource for Lincoln Cent die varieties.

I do intend on eventually opening the programming and image library of coppercoins to all series of US coins on a different domain. A 10-15 year long project will include acquiring examples to shoot photos, and eventually housing a library of over a quarter million images of over 20,000 different US die varieties. I expect to complete this project around 2020...of course by then with different technology than we have now.

Good news to those who cannot wait, I will open the ongoing project to the public in 2008. It won't be anywhere near complete, but even a little is better than nothing at all, which is what we have out there now.
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