Yes this is a good one! Yes this is a good one! If someone don't beat me to it I'll look it up in the am. Good going!!
There are a lot of these, but I would say 1961D-1MM-011. Over 77 different ones on Coppercoins.com Jim
I meant different RPMs for this year. I am not sure of the population of this one. Usually price boost over the normal cent is related to the strength of the offset. A small offset of the secondary like this one might make it worth a tiny amount more, but if it was offset by 25-50% or more, it would be worth many times more. Jim
I have several and retail them BU for $2 each but, In the Wexler Files we have over 125 different in 1961-D, (not including the die stages and different reverses). In 1960-D over 250 but please don't let that discourage you - if you keep searching and learning you will find a big one someday and this is great practice. This is how we all did it, bit by bit! If you want to find "the money coin" go for the top Cherry Pickers coins or many of the late 1980's Lincoln's say 85,6,7,8,9 RPM's are really rare and hard to find - but for the most part while nice to find in any grade, we all want gems and early die states - after all it is "the thing" that we are looking at that makes it so special, so we want to look at nice.
Separation is not the only thing that brings a premium value. Lack of availability in any die variety can make it valuable. Some of the more valuable RPMs are actually ones that aren't all that impressive but have very few known examples...so your statement is unfortunately not accurate. A couple of more modern examples would be 1960D-1MM-004 and 1960D-1MM-108. Both of these are 'lesser' RPMs as far as their visibility factor, but both bring a higher premium over other RPMs just beause they are difficult to find and rarely come up for sale.
