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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1878182, member: 66"]Your #1 and #2 combined.  It was hyped early on, frankly as soon as it showed up, and it was an easy coin to identify.  The hype and promotion was the really mportant one though.  At that time errors were NOT really considered collectible and only a fringe group was interested in what were call FIDO's (Freaks, Irregular Defective Objects.)  Errors such as off-centers were frequently consigned to the trash can because they were "defective" and not worth keeping.  So for something like the 55 DDO to take off as it did, it required promotion.  And the big win was when Whitman was convinced to include the coin in their Lincoln cent holders.  Now in order to have a "complete" set everyone needed one.  That created a lot more demand, talk, price increases, more talk, and the general public gets wind of it, a chance to find a valuable coin in their pocket change.  (I saw the same thing happen with the 1972 and 1995 DDO cents.  I had people telling me about the "valuable 1995 cent"!  They didn't know what made it valuable, or how to identify the valuable one, so they were saving any 1995 cent they found just in case it was might be the one.  Frankly I am truly surprised I haven't heard of people taking their hoards of 1995 cents to dealers looking to cash in.  Maybe they found so may 95's that they guessed they couldn't be valuable after all and just dumped them back in the bank.)[/QUOTE]