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55 double die in a local antique mall, raw, what do you think?
DNADave
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They have it at 1700. I think it’s a 1300-1400 coin with questionable surfaces (to me). I don’t see these too often at antique malls Especially the real deal. 
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Hard pass! Funky surfaces (like it came out of a wishing well.)
This, assuming it is real, is one I'd rather spend a couple extra bucks for a certified example. There is also no shortage of this variety with multiple examples available at any given moment.
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Hard pass, for that price you can buy one AU50 or better no details slabbed.
No.
Does it come with egg roll?
No!
Even if it’s genuine, this is a dog for this coin. Most of these coins grade a minimum of EF-45. They were plucked out of circulation very quickly. Problem surfaces leave you no where.
Assuming it’s real, a details coin at best.
It will be a lot cheaper if you buy it on Alibaba
Looks fake. This coin is being heavily counterfeited. As they say in Texas, El Paso.
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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Lol. I thought it was real with problems to the surface. FWIW I looked at it and put it back.
Run Forrest run!!!!
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Wow, certainly looks off with just the images:
Me thinks it's a copy. And distressed to boot. Peace Roy
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I wouldn't buy a 55 DDO raw.
Not a coin to buy raw unless you are well educated on fake detection
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
You've been around here since 2005, you should know better.
The best coin buy I ever made was at an antique mall. Many years ago along some interstate highway in Ohio. The lovely Mrs. Hydrant insisted that we go in for a look.......what could I say?......anyway, I came out with two Whitman folders. A complete Roosevelt dime set and a complete Mercury dime set. Minus the 16-D. Lots of very high grade coins! The price for both sets was less than melt! On the shelf above the coin folders was a ball of twine and a vintage Coke can. So....you never know. But......$1,700? I don't think so. Somebody is looking for a sucker.
Offer them $1.75
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Don’t walk run away from this one!
I think it's fake.
Based on a real coin!
That coin looks fake from those pictures!
Look at Abe.
unless its the picture quality this cent looks totally fake.
The doubling looks too mushy compared to some real 1955 DDs' I have seen in the past. I have seen VG08 graded 1955 DDs' that had a more pronounced doubling and that did not look mushy compared to this coin
just its just my opinion based on 40+ years of collecting US cents
I paid less than that for a lustrous PCGS AU-58 with a CAC sticker. Hard pass, it looks very questionable.
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Fake as all hell.
Like my dad use to almost growl at me-Pay attention to the details, Junior.
I would pass on this one.... surfaces are not right. Cheers, RickO
Smirking Abe at that!
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
The 1955 DDO cent is fairly easy to authenticate. On real specimens there are two thin vertical die polish lines that cross forming a very narrow X in the field just to the left of the vertical upright of the T in CENT. You'll need strong magnification and good lighting to see it.
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
Unfortunately some of the counterfeiters have learned to add this.
From the thread title I thought I already knew the answer. The photos confirmed it.
No bueno.
Even Abe is smiling...
I sold a raw one here nicer than that ( assuming this one is real) for around $1100 mine was real and tons more eye appeal.
me thinks its a fake and a pretty good one
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Questionable surfaces for sure... on a coin that's been known to be faked... yeah, nah!
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I agree with @BuffaloIronTail …………..Run Forrest Run!!!