Errors have come a long way since the days of FIDOs---Freaks, Irregularities, Defects and Oddities. In the very early days of the 1955 DDO discovery, Dave Bowers and Jim Ruddy (Empire Coin Company) were selling them for 75 cents each. https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/market-analysis-1955-ddo-in-ms-65-plus-red-cac
Was someone putting 1955 DDOs in cigarette packs? I know there was time when they put 2cents in vending machine packs as change.
Here it is. From PCGS Coinfacts: In the following months 1955 Doubled Die cents were finally turning up in circulation, including in cigarette packs which were being sold in vending machines. At that time, a pack of cigarettes would cost 23 cents each but the vending machines would only take a quarter and no other change. Therefore, the cigarette companies would need to place two cents inside each pack of cigarettes to be given back as change. Anyone who inserted a quarter in the vending machine would then receive a pack of cigarettes with two Lincoln cents inside a cellophane packaging. This cellophane packaging was then wrapped around the cigarette packs with the two Lincoln cents inside it, and this is where many of the 1955 Doubled Dies surfaced.
