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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2594540, member: 27832"]The '55 DDO calls to mind another good example. In 1955, as in other years, the Mint used dies until they were used up. Late in their life, they deteriorated to the point where features around the edge of the coin's face trailed or smeared out. Since the '55 DDO became so popular (and expensive), some enterprising soul(s) hit on the idea of marketing plain old die-deteriorated 1955 cents as "Poor Man's Double [sic] Die". In any other year, coins struck with deteriorated dies aren't any more desirable, and often are less desirable -- but the "Poor Man's DD" has been offered (and, apparently, sold) at a premium for decades. People are still getting multiple dollars for them on eBay. (Which reminds me -- I got ten or twenty of them out of a roll of "unsearched" Wheats thrown into an eBay lot, and I really ought to list them.) It's a little bit about supply, but a lot about demand, and demand isn't always rational.[/QUOTE]