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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 1323140, member: 9270&quot;]I didn&#039;t exactly &quot;find&quot; this coin. I just sort of lucked out at a local coin show.</p><p>Back when I had LOTS of holes in my type set I was looking at a dealer&#039;s layout in a display case.</p><p>In it was a bunch of slabbed and raw coins of various metals and issues.</p><p>I noticed an NGC-slabbed $1 gold (1862) that I didn&#039;t have yet in my type set.</p><p>It was AU-58 which for that particular coin fit my budget and liking nicely.</p><p>He must have wanted to get rid of it since he sold it to me at graysheet Bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got it home and was ready to put it into my type set database when someone in a chatroom mentioned there were several DDR and one DDO varieties.</p><p>So I got my Breen encyclopedia oout and checked it.</p><p>Sure enough it was the DDO!</p><p>I shipped it back to NGC and paid to have the variety attribute put on the slab.</p><p>But it didn&#039;t find its way into my type set; I kept it aside as a &quot;special&quot; coin.</p><p>Which means I had to go out and find another coin of that issue for my type set.</p><p><br /></p><p>BOTTOM LINE: As best I can find its value isn&#039;t all that much higher than a regular 1862.</p><p>About a 50% premium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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