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What happend to the 1909 VDB-DDO requirement in the Lincoln W/ Var 1909-1958 set?

LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
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Didnt this used to be a required coin for that set? I just looked and it's not listed as a part of that set anymore. Does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks,
David
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  • KeyrockKeyrock Posts: 961 ✭
    Are you sure you clicked on the right set. I just looked and it is there, also in the 1909 to date W/ var. too.
  • RegistryNutRegistryNut Posts: 606 ✭
    If you click on set composition of the variety set from 09-58 this coin is omitted as David says. However,
    some sets do contain this coin. Confusing! image

    If you click on set composition of the variety set from 09-present this coin does appear. image
    Seems to me some uniformity is missing.

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  • RegistryNutRegistryNut Posts: 606 ✭
    Looks like a simple mistake by PCGS. If you look at set composition of the 09-58 variety set, there are two
    1909 VDBs listed. The second listing down, with a weight of four, is most likely the ddo. It just isn't described properly.

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  • sonofagunksonofagunk Posts: 1,349 ✭✭
    It seems to be if you HAVE the coin (and it is RD) the variety is listed as DDO, if the coin is missing (or is it RB or BN) there is no variety listed and there are two plain 09-vdb


    82423 - NOT listed as DDO
    82424 - NOT listed as DDO
    82425 - listed as DDO
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  • iras4iras4 Posts: 300


    << <i>Didnt this used to be a required coin for that set? I just looked and it's not listed as a part of that set anymore. Does anyone know anything about this?

    Thanks,
    David >>




    It's listed there this AM, Dave. What is maddening is that the 1909 VDB DDO, the one with the strongest doubling, is only give a 4 point value while the 1909 VDB, a coin as common as dirt, is given a value of 3! Simply doesn't make sense. I see RBs now and then and browns, but reds in 64 & better are quite scarce to rare. For example, in MS-65 Red only 8 have ever been certified by PCGS and 5 in MS-66 Rd with one finer! This is not a common coin in red.

    Tens of thousands of red 1909 VDBs have been examined looking for the bonanza, the strong DDO, but to no avail. The pops haven't significantly increased through the years either. This, of course, is not the only anomoly in the Registry point values for the Lincoln Cent series, merely one of many! The 1955 DDO has a point value of 9, admittedly popular but hardly rare! Yet the 1936 DDO Die 1, the only one accepted into the Registry set w/varieties, is only assigned 7! And how many strong reverse 1922 No Ds are around? Tough in AU or better, but plenty available in grades under that, and THAT coin is given a weighting value of 10!

    Thes values should really be revised to reflect true scarcity. It should change rthe ranking of anyone, but will rewars those who find one of the scarce ones and succeed in getting it certifies by PCGS. Am I expecting too much?


    BTW, if ANYONE has a spare Die 1 1936 DDO they would sell please contact me. I need one for a customer and have grown weary of scouring the bourses for one.

    Ira
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  • SteveSteve Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    Thes values should really be revised to reflect true scarcity.

    Ira >>



    Ira, I think PCGS, and for that matter NGC too, attempt to assign weightings based on VALUE rather than SCARCITY, at least as far as varieties are involved. Lincoln cent collectors, including me, generally tend to place more value and more interest in coins like the 1955 DD, the 1922 plain and the 1909VDB Matte Proof as opposed to the 1936DD, the 1909VDB DD or a beautiful 1992 PR70DCAM. JMHO. Steveimage
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