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I do not need a 1955/55 Double Die Lincoln Cent !!!!!!!!!!!!!
topstuf
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No! I absolutely do NOT!
NO !!! A thousand times .... NO!
Really
Honest
Why would I need one?
I remember when they came out.
They're an ERROR not a regular issue coin! 
I'd be crazy to want one.
So I won't .
Really. 
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Too common
YES.. SEEE???
No, it isn't necessary for a "complete" Lincoln cent set. There are also far better values for same or similar price.
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VARIETY
@topstuf ...... I think I know where you are going with this; you ALREADY GOT one!!!!!!
Not an "error", a die variety. If you want to complete a set with major varieties it is required.
Besides, they are really cool, why wouldn't you want one? They aren't even all that expensive.
Collector, occasional seller
That sounds like my internal thoughts for every coin I see.....right before I open my wallet.
Just WHO is is it.... "REQUIRED"....by?????
You can get one from China for real cheap. I guess the Chinese collectors who collected them in the 1950s don't know their real value.
It's a really interesting piece of American Numismatics. Even most non coin collectors are blown away by this coin. It is just one of those special coins.
That being said, there is no rush to jump on just any old example, because you can buy one at any time anywhere coins are sold. Nothing particularly rare about it, except for maybe in original red condition.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
I do not like green eggs and DCW.
It's an amazing, but common coin. It's like getting your first Saint Gaudens.
Here's the sole PCGS MS65+ CAC, pop 1/0, which sold for $114,000 in April of 2018.
https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2018/04/legendary-1955-lincoln-cent-stacks-bowers-rarities-night.html
A set includes what the owner wants to include.
I bought mine about 10 years ago and love it. I think everyone should own a 55DD. @topstuf what are you waiting for?
Along with the 09-S vdb, it always was THE COOL coin.
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
The die to strike these coins was actually made that way? I didn't know that.
As for the price, I'd say between 80% and 90% of collectors will never spend that much on a single coin in their entire life.
No You Don't, Besides you can get a perfect 1955 Lincoln that's not all messed up and a reject error for a lot less money...............hehe Go Figure
Steve
The Master of Hype demands that you buy one. (I'm not the Master of Hype so it is OK if you ignore him.)
I can end your anguish. You buy it, I’ll take it!
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
I smell a ...trick.
I sold my Dad's 10 yrs ago to buy a house. It is the only coin of his I really miss. I doubt I will ever own another.
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Did you mean the 09 S vdb?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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There's an affordable brown one at HJB right now. Look fast
--Severian the Lame
so how many to you have?
CAC? If it CAN sticker and is a variety recognized by CAC in determining its bid level, it is part of any serious collector's set. Duh...
Ya, that's the ticket? LOL
Louis Armstrong
Magnificent example.
Always wanted one, some day.
See, that's what I love about this place.
A fine man willing to help out his fellow collector. A damn hero, if you ask me.
Very true, like: "ANACS was thefirst TPGS." Thankfully, this statement was finally corrected a few years ago to: "ANACS is the oldest TPGS." That's the truth now, because the actual first grading service (INSAB) is no longer around.
You need food, water, air, and shelter but no one "needs" any coin. It's a hobby and a luxury.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
'55 DD has same status as '09 S V.D.B. It's a variety and as such not necessary to include in a regular set of Lincoln cents.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879--18 April 1955)
This is truly a "I MISS THE DISAGREE BUTTON" thread
Die Variety not Error and you can buy a few dozen or more any day you decide you'd like one.
I had plenty of opportunists to buy sliders for $300-400 that would fetch $2K today and have no regrets not doing so.
The vast majority of Lincoln cent collectors consider these two coins to be a necessary and integral part of a Lincoln cent collection.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I heard dealers in west central MA say that the original groups of them came from that area, not sure what the whole story is.
A jewelry shop owner came into a coin show with a raw one wanting offers at $2K plus. Maybe I'm gullible but I paid him the money and had it come back 62RB and cac, so I made some money.
You didn't check with us first. We determine that.
She's a looker alright !!!
Yap ..... it's totally a "WANT" .......... however you missed another important "need" .......
LOVE 
Unless you have a Dansco album. No hole for a 55/55 but a nasty hole for a 22P. Dansco tells you what is in a set.
FYI: It is doubleD die
BHNC #203
Most of us who collected as kids dreamed of owning a 55 DDO. I completely understand why you'd want one (you're a kid, right?).
And topstuf, my offer still stands if you feel shame in buying one.
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
It, along with the "22-P" or any "missing mint mark" type coins have zero appeal to me.
More for the others to buy.
I wish I had the two I saved as a kid.....Long gone when my Mom cleaned out my room sometime after I joined the Navy....Have not really considered buying one... the two I had were nice red ones as well. Maybe I will find one in change....
Cheers, RickO
Wow, those red ones could be worth a lot. Imagine if the MS65+ above was one of yours?
Don’t lie to your self you need one
I have a very new nice AU cleaned made the mistake of selling always regrets on that one 😦
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
I passed on an undamaged AU-58 (today's 62) for $400 a long time ago. At the time, that was more than a month's rent for my apartment in DC. I wrote an article about how the diagnostics to authenticate these coins evolved. That's why I've been looking for an AU (to show the reverse die polish) with a damaged obverse (less expensive) for my teaching set for decades.
When I started collecting, everyone knew about this "double die" - that's what we called them. At the time, who knew there were thousands of other "doublED die coins to be cherried.
@Zoins.... Yes, I have thought of that.... However, at the time, they were not worth that much, and my Mom had no idea about coins (she once said about the '55DDO, "That makes me dizzy.".....
Cheers, RickO
At least your Mom knew what it was