Back in the 80's I made a conscious effort to collect uncirculated rolls of Lincoln Cents back to 1941 with the personal promise of purchasing an uncirculated roll of cents for each year and mintmark in the years to come. That target began to wane in the early 2000's and the proice of rolls from the 40's was beginning to be cost prohibitive when they actually came onto the market. As such, my "roll" collection only dipped back to 1946 with some holes up to 1956. Fighting off boredom in the hopes of creating some excitement, I decided to go through some of the older rolls of those coins. I normally dislike going through rolls of cents as the metal in the coins is so reactive and they are so danged small that I usually end up dropping 1 or 2 out of each roll searched. That can prove costly with uncirculated red cents. At any rate, to make a long story short, I was very excited and pleased to find the following in my roll of 1947's. DDO-001 FS-101! I found several RPM's as well but nothing of any real significance. BTW, these rolls were purchased from Virg Marshal out of Wymore Nebraska via ads posted in Coin World or Coinage, I forget which one.
Great find! Usually where there is one, there are others in unc rolls. Is this the only example you pulled?
I found this about half way through the roll and said exactly what you said! If there's one, there's gotta be two! NOT! There was only the one and no, I do not have anymore rolls of this particular date. The roll of 47-D's coughed up several of these though: I found so many, I figured they were quite common. A roll of 1951-D's coughed up several of this one as well: Again, more than likely quite common.
It seems like that is how it always works out for me too. The one roll where I find a good FS variety will be the one roll where there is only one of the variety to be found. I'll open another roll and find a minor RPM, and there will be 20 of them in the roll.
