Got this back in my change today and was wondering if you thought it was indeed genuine as i am not familiar with the variety????? What drew my eye to it was because it looks like it has two B's in LIBERTY then looked more closely and the doubling was more apparent. I know its really not worth much in this shape just cool is all but probably will just be another case of my mistaken eyes...
The funny thing is i rip through $25 dollar boxes of pennies and never have found a one of them. Today I get one in my change from the auto parts store while picking up brake shoes for my car, life is crazy like that.:thumb:
Its coins like this i can never seem to part with, it just seems so much cooler when you find it yourself and after looking for one of these for quite awhile i think i will just keep it.
Looks like a legitimate DDO to me. Not the splits on the doubled letters in LIBERTY. Nice find. I think I paid $50 or $55 for my MS example.
I totally understand that. But you can definitely be happy you found one. And now you know what you are looking for. Congrats! :hail:
I bought a $50 bag of unc 1995 pennies from a dealer here in Kansas and found zero of those. Must be your lucky day... yesterday.
Only one obverse die struck these DDOs. (Just to clarify, that obverse die was paired with a reverse die.) That die was probably only used on one day (or at most two days). That doubled die was probably only one of several dies in use at that time. (Some coin presses strike four coins at a time and therefore use four pairs of dies. And the Mint probably has more than one coin press in use striking cents at any particular time.) If you are lucky enough to get a bag of coins that were struck when that doubled die was in use your odds of finding a DDO are higher than if the coins were struck during some other time period.
I'm familiar with the process. I would have had several of them if that bag happened to be filled when that die was in service... gambled... lost. Now I have 5000 unc 1995 pennies that cost me a dime per. I only keep them now as a painful reminder of the fact that I am complete failure.
Sorry. No offense intended. I agree - you probably would have found a number of the DDOs if you were lucky enough to have gotten a bag of coins struck when that die was in use. Yes, it was a gamble. I wouldn't say that I would not have taken the same gamble. You wouldn't have to find many DDOs to make that gamble pay off.
