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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Mader, post: 8224236, member: 106826&quot;]Disclaimer first: I wish that they never dubbed the 1955 with Die Deterioration, a Poorman&#039;s Doubled Die.&nbsp; It just confuses that heck out of people.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Paddyman noted, this is die deterioration.&nbsp; We can see this mainly in the outer devices and the field slope right at the periphery of the rim.&nbsp; Especially in the 1950&#039;s, die sets were used past their usefulness resulting in lots of anomalies.&nbsp; BIE cents and die chips/cracks everywhere.&nbsp; Other decades too, but especially the 1950&#039;s.&nbsp; The infamous 1955 Poorman&#039;s Doubled Die is the result of a <u>worn-out</u> obverse die...not a <u>doubled </u>obverse die.&nbsp; I might have an AU/BU specimen kicking around in my collection...and it looks nothing like my actual 1955 DDO...and there isn&#039;t any doubling on it whatsoever.&nbsp; If the granddaddy of all DDOs didn&#039;t happen in 1955...it&#039;s doubtful that the Poorman&#039;s Doubled Die label would have ever been coined.&nbsp; Happy hunting![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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