Greetings everyone, Looking for some input on these... I was big into searching for the 2009 Lincoln DDR errors after discovering some in the mint rolls I had purchased and subsequently bought a lot more of them to search on Ebay. After finding out there were like 300 freaking DDR errors I know these lost some steam but I'm sure still have some value. The ones I have are the first ones discovered: CDDR-001 CDDR-002 CDDR-003 DDO-001 FY Die Clash I probably have 30-50 of each of these and I would say the majority of these are MS65+ as they were all carefully unwrapped and searched with white gloves on with some being worthy of higher grades. There don't seem to be many of these out there on Ebay etc., is there any market for them? Would it be worth it to get some graded, and if so who grades these errors? NGC? ANACS? I don't think PCGS will. What is a true value on these? On Doubledie.com they show are $50 each but doubt that's accurate, thoughts? - http://www.doubleddie.com/60701.html Thanks! John
Let's just say I would be very surprised if such a great majority are 65+ regardless of how they were handled upon discovery. The average quality just wasn't that high, and spotting was a major issue. Unless you have a few that are truly special, and of the still more popular varieties (I haven't bothered to cross reference those you've listed), submitting would be a fool's errand imo. If you're not seeing the same varieties (cross referenced, of course) available on ebay, and are interested in liquidating what you have, I would list one at a time (as to not cut your own throat) and let the card fall where they may.
I did all roll searching from bank boxes off ebay. And maybe I was fortunate as I ran into many of the major errors from the Formative years that came back MS67. In regards to selling them, that's another story. Like the 2009 nickels, it seems very few made it into circulation.
Greetings everyone, Been a long time... almost 10 years At this point I still have quite a few of the coins mentioned above and finally dug them out of the closet again. We recently had a coin show in north Georgia which motivated me do finally do something with them so I decided to take these with me and as I'm sure many of you know there is not much interest out there in modern error coins I stopped by the ANACS booth and the guy basically said they were not worth grading as the cost was like $30~ per coin. He said the better ROI would be to sell them raw which I agreed at that price it seemed silly. After looking around the show I didn't see any dealers who dealt with modern error stuff so have no idea if these are worth anything these days... I ended up finding the IGC coin grading booth and they gave me a good deal on grading about 28 coins total - 16 CDDR001's and 14 CDDR002's. My eyes have gone to crap so having them in labeled holders will be nice. All that said I'll probably end up keeping a few then trying to sell the rest along with a bunch of other bits as I don't have much time for hobbies these days and don't have anyone to pass them down to so I'd rather them be enjoyed then to just sit in my closet taking up space. Aside from the ones I had already searched and pulled out, I have 2 unsearched rolls with error coins on the ends, one roll has a CDDR-001 and the other has CDDR-003's on either end. Also found my coin roll searching stash of 98 & 00 Wide AM coin and my one and only 95 DDO Searching Google did not net many results as far as modern coin dealers or anyone who deals with these, can anyone recommend a coin shop or dealer who I could talk to about these? I'd rather not go down the Ebay path again as I did sell some there years ago but between the baseball cards and Porsche parts I'm already about 10 years behind on selling crap so yeah. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! John
Welcome back. The only thing I can help you with is that Doubled Die Reverse are actually varieties, not errors
I think the sheer volume of what you have combined with the hundreds of different varieties gives you your answer on value. Some coins are uncommon but not very valuable because nobody collects them. Some coins are common but have value because tons of people collect them. Yours is the worst case scenario - common coins that nobody collects. Maybe there's a diehard group out there trying to collect all of them but they're probably not going to want the ones that you have dozens of because they've already found them. Just my gut feeling.
Hi John, If you go back to the doubleddie.com and look at the photo of the hand with the extra piece of thumb separate, you do not see any other portion that is doubled the same way. If it was a True die doubling, almost all areas of the coin side would show such doubling. This is not a true doubled die, but it did excite coin people and several coin websites used it to increase members and value ( which is basically quite low. I was excited by the first rolls and bought boxes from the bank at face and still have most of them , some unopened. So people collecting them might be interested some day. I have noticed that Coppercoins .com has realized such and removed many from their Doubled die listings, others have not. IMO. Jim
