How often do you find a 1974D DDO Kennedy Half?

As I've been going through my boxes of halves for silver, I've been pulling out the 1974Ds then looking at them in search of a DDO. I think that by now I've looked at about 600 1974Ds and (I think) haven't found one yet.

I'm not sure how commonly these are found in circulation - what has your experience been?

And...once you do find them, does is there any market for them? I see a lot of MS on the bay...

Thanks!

 

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I looked through rolls/bags for years and didn't find any. So I bought a graded one off eBay to just get an idea of what it would look like in hand (this was a looooong time ago, when my Cherrypicker's teeth weren't fully formed.)

As soon as I had it in hand, for whatever reason, I found like 25 over the next few months, as well as a handful of 1977 D DDO. That was in Salt Lake City.

I've never found a single 74D anywhere else.

 

I never found one and have searched thousands of halves.

 

I think I just refuse to pay the price, There might be a few in a couple rolls I have. Noth'in I have confirmed yet.

 

I have yet to find one... probably have gone through maybe 60 boxes this past 10 months or so. I have found 2 1982-Ps missing the FG though.

 

Interesting info... So the SLC area appears to be where a lot of them got distributed then.

 

I've only found one in the wild and the rest I've ever found were in 1974 mint sets.

 

I got tired of looking.

 

Good information. Thanks to you all for your replies. Sounds like these are much less common than I thought they were.

 

I have found (10) 1974-D DDO after searching about 16,000 coins since I started paying attention to this coin. That's only 0.06% success rate. I live in Texas where we get a lot of Denver coins so that probably helped my odds somewhat.

 

There are somewhere between 251 and 500 out there in total. A rarity rating of URS-10.

 

Wow, I gave 2 away to co-workers who coin collect. Maybe I should have kept them!!

 

This shows the PCGS population to be over 800.
I am sure many more have not been graded, or graded by other companies.
There are probably thousands of these 1974-D DDO, still rare.
http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/96723

 

Well, goes to show you that one should update their CherryPickers' guide, mine is © 2012.