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Is this a "poor mans" doubled die?



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Its a poormans, cracked skull variety! It is amazing what some of these sell for on ebay, I got probably 10 of these I found roll searching. I bought a large lot of "varieties-errors" and this was one of the ones in it, it had cracked skulls from 1956-1960. Sometimes you can cherry pick a 1955P-1DO-002 from someone who does not know the value of them and calls it a poormans DDO. I almost had a 002 a couple months ago on ebay, someone else must have noticed what it was and beat my high bid.
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SWEET! My dealer sold it to me for a whopping 0.35! I wasn't sure, it was just labeled as 55/55. How much do they go for? I think he may have had a couple more that people have passed over.
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Bad, I have seen them go for $10 on ebay. Not sure why, they are really fairly prevalent. Still, a nice find.
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Ya they are pretty common, all from worn out dies not doubled dies. They still sell for a few bucks. I still need to get a real 1955 DDO and its little brother 002- Sometimes you can find these labeled as poormans- http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/...ie_state=mds
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It is what is referred to as one but it is not a doubled die. It is a coin struck from a very worn and deteriorated die. Very common on many coins of the 50s and 60s but it was hyped as a way to fill in the hole that was placed in coin albums for the real 1955 DDO coin.
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