The Big One-1955 DDO-1

You have to love that term (WHIZZED)

 

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After your score, I can't poke fun at people searching alleged "unsearched" lots.

How was the rest of the lot that you obtained from that seller? It appears someone just snagged his final lot of 1,250 cents. Hopefully, it will produce something decent, seeming how they just spent close to $60 for $12.50 in change

-LTB

 

I didn't know he had put more up for sale, or I would have probably been bidding on those! Honestly they were typical in that there weren't any key dates and most coins were '40's & '50's in avg circ condition with a few of the '50's being AU. I did also get a 1912-S with VF details but with some corrosion. The thing that was not typical(aside from the '55 DDO!) was that at least 90% of the coins were Denver and San Fran, so I'm guessing whoever originally hoarded these lived on the west coast(which makes it even more amazing that with so few from Philly one of them was the '55). I still have many of them to search through for RPMs and minor varieties.

p.s.-
Also found a few of the most interesting lamination errors I've seen. I'll try to post one later on.

 

Yeah, I saw it as it was about to close, but didn't didn't have the guts to bid...with my luck, I would've gotten all commons with nothing special, and then have been stuck with 1,250 common wheats in their 40s-50s.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230433637189

For you, the gamble definitely paid off...and you're still pulling nice coins out of the lot; nice score!

-LTB

 

Fantastic find.

I just read this thread for the first time today. How can a key coin that was deliberately whizzed to enhance its value (probably by a numismatist) end-up back in circulation to be found in a bulk Ebay roll?

.... It could have been seeded into the rolls by the seller.

.... It was never technically "whizzed" & ANACS made an error.

.... It was stolen from a collection & spent.

.... It was in a Whitman folder & an heir didn't recognize it.

.... The original owner had an IQ below 40.

....

 

I've asked myself those questions as well, especially since it got the "whizzed" designation(which had never even occurred to me).

As for seeding-I don't think so. He's not a coin dealer but more of a yard-sale seller on Ebay. Looks like he sold some old bags of wheats that he had had around for years. That's also what he told me when I inquired if he had any more. None of the few auctions he had for these lots of wheats ever hyped up key dates or varieties or unsearched. I think they all just basically said "here are some old wheats I'm getting rid of."

Stolen and spent could be a possibility. Judging by the 499 or so of the others I received in this lot, they were all pulled from circulation.

 

If I found something like that I would have whizzed myself!

What an incredible find! I have been reading this thread all along and just dying to find out what happens. It's been a real cliff-hanger!

Congrats on a huge find! It makes all those hours of searching worth it and is what keeps a lot of us going.