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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Delphi, post: 853970, member: 18686&quot;]Hi Everyone, I was reading this old thread and thought I would chime in as I have been collecting the 2009 FY varieties.&nbsp; Yes, it is true that there are many varieties found but even with 100 DDRs identified and many are on eBay right now, there are only a small handful that truly stand out. The rest are very insignificant in my opinion. Literally a small blip in the finger area. But why does that need to detract from the major varieties of the Formative Years series? It seems that often in double dies there are many versions of the same variety. We as collectors are always weeding out the best. </p><p><br /></p><p>But there is what I call The Big Three that are significant, easily identifiable, and based on appearance......they are marketable. So I say from a practical manner in listing in a guide book, list out the top major versions (whether that is 3-10) and then group the lesser varieties as those are all very similar in appearance. Seems practical to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are what I call The Big Three:</p><p><br /></p><p>CDDR-001 &quot;Double Thumb&quot;</p><p>CDDR-002 &quot;Sixth Finger&quot; </p><p>CDDR-009 &quot;Skeleton Finger&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Skeleton Finger from my own personal experiences and from what others are saying is the toughest of the three to find. The CDDR-009 is also paired with the CDD0-002 showing slight notching he lower left corners of ERTY in LIBERTY. With strong extra thickness on the lower hair and beard details. Light extra thickness shows on the date with a notch showing on the underside of the top left of the 2 and on the bottom left corner of the 2. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is believe that the &quot;Skeleton Finger&quot; is the toughest because the obverse die shared it&#039;s production time with the lesser double die reverse (CDDR-006) which failed sometime during the production run and the die was pulled and replaced with a new reverse die which was the CDDR-009 (Skeleton Finger)! As these two reverse DDRs ( CDDR-006 &amp; CDDR-009 with CDDO-002) each shared part of the production run, then each of them would have much less of them being produced as compared to one individual Formative Year DDR that made a full production on its own. Therefore, this variety has a lot less of them and harder to find compared to the other listed Formative Year varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just think in time these deserve respect through listing in the guide books and if that can happen, then more interest can build. Crawford, Wexler, CONECA, Potter, &amp; Copper Coins have verified that these are true double dies, and have extensively research and listed the varieties. I don&#039;t see why the Red Book and Cherrypickers cannot select the major varieties and list them as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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