Discovery piece value

Vetter

How much more would a "discovery" piece be worth over a coin with the same variety and grade? I have one and would never sell it. I was just wondering. Anyone know.

pharmer

Depends. What is it, series, mint, variety, condition. How do you know it is the discovery coin? Who did the attribution?

Vetter

Oops. I guess I sould have included a picture.

lordmarcovan

Yoohoo, Baley... where are you?

(Not that Baley could likely shed any light on the value of discovery coins, as I don't think he sold his...)

pharmer

Well, Ive got quite a few from my new CONECA listings for Lincoln rpm's and doubled dies. I send them to the CONECA/ICG attribution/slabbing program, and they put that on the label along with the CONECA attribution.

WDDO stands for wexler doo, it's his attribution and thus probably his coin originally. What it's worth is what someone else is willing to pay, and I would think that would be more than the same thing that was not the discovery coin. I've never sold one of mine, so I don't know yet, but I think my Lincoln 1950d ddo-1, for example, would be worth something, as it's the only doubled die attributed yet for the 1950d's, obverse or reverse.