auction caught my eye no bidders... last seconds so I tossed em the $5 bid they wanted and won... yay big excitement $5 for 7 crappy wheat cents... probably a waste of money (99.99% likely) but... maybe a poormans 55 ddo
I learn something new here every day. I always thought the 1955 doubled die, or poor mans DD, were minted in Philly. I was unaware there was a variety out of Denver too.
no the big boy is from Philly a major variety with the massive seperation/doubleing the d ddo is a lesser doubling and considered a minor variety or at least that is the info I get from pcgs lol
Wasted $5 on eBay? I guess that would depend on why you bid on them. Simply the feeling of "winning" something can get the juices flowing and be worth it. I hope the seller paid for postage though.
I learned about the "poor man's DD" when I was an impressionable kid (circa 1970), because there was at least one big-name dealer that pushed it very heavily. As I understand it today, it's simply die trails from a heavily-worn die, and happens on many dates and mints. It's just that everyone was staring extra-hard at their 1955-P cents, and it was easy to wish/hope that a little "doubling" was still worth attention. I didn't learn about "strike doubling" until I came here. As we see most every day on the Errors forum, I'm not the only one who was late learning about it.
