Just Found My First 1988 RDV-006 But......

Hey Coin Crazy, zeke here. Stay the course on seaching for the ' 88 ' RDV-006. I gaurantee you will become an expert on recognizing the ways the ' G's ' look on this cent so
when you find one you'll know it, but still do a double take, and feel real good about it. As I said it took me approx. 2 1/2 years. Good Luck to you.
P.S. I'm originally from New Britain. It was know in my days as New Britski. NBHS class of ' 56 ' . A long, long time ago.

 

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What is so special about it??

 

they used the reverse of the 1989 one cent on the 1988 obverse. not sure on the exact number or if its even known, but they are pretty tough to find.

 

I haven't found one in a few hundred boxes and countless solid date BU rolls. In that same time period I've found all kinds of goodies like two BU 1999 WAM's (one was an NGC MS-65) and a 1972 DDO.....just to name a couple.

 

REVERSE STYLE of 1989 cent on 1988. Most notable in the "G"

 

i have searched a lot for this coin as well, i agree its very hard to find. i really want this variety because its my birth year.

 

Since I found the 1988 D, I have spent hours & hours researching the variety. The number of D's is still in the teens. PCGS does not yet attribute the variety but ANACS does. Yet their population # is 0. There are very few of the Phiilys being reported, about 1 a month since the discovery in 2007. What I believe happened was the anvils were set and the dies installed, and stamping begun. Then someone in quality control realized the year was incorrect and stopped the process to change the anvil (obverse die generally). But so far only one die of the Denver has shown up. So there could be a run of the life of the die about 70,000 or, if my theory is correct as few as a couple of dozen ? Strange that with as many people searching for this 1988/89 hybrid that more have not surfaced. Also, I think those stamped went right into bags for circulation. So, the longer they are out there, the more get destroyed or ruined.

Good luck on your search. I was extremely lucky.

 

I wonder how many of us there are who have found this 1988 RDV-006 Philly or Devenver cent. Let us start a CT poll to find out. My guess is that 6 or 7 of us have one.

 

Likely. ANACS shows a population of 3 D.s 2 are 54 and 1 is a 50. I looked at old threads from 2007-08 that felt this variety would lose value in time. Predicting a value in the $50 range. We see the opposite. More people are aware of it and demand has increased but the number of coins has stayed very low. A cent collection could be complete without all the die varieties of a given year. But cannot be complete without the transition coins known to exist. Not a true 1988 and not a 89. But I am very curious also. Please take the poll.

Mine is a D grading in process.

 

If we're still keeping a tally, I have 3 of them, all P's.