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Damn! I would rate that as the motoring equivalent to finding a
1955-S doubled die cent in change.

1955-*S*???????

James the Gobsmacked

My bad. Originally I wrote it as a 1909-S VDB, then typed over and
deleted some characters to make it a more credible find - but
forgot
to lose the S.

Nothing get past your eagle eyes, damn them. :-I

I would hypothesize that the chances of finding a 1909-S VDB in
pocket change are massively larger than finding a 55 Doubled Die,
because they had 24X the mintage, and there are still a lot more
surviving SVDBs, even if half the original mintage has somehow
perished.

James the Actuary

Mmm... That goes to minted population, not circulating population. I
daresay that except for the rare finds from raided/stolen caches, any
circulating 1909 cent was snapped up into long-term storage by the
time we got our high school diplomas. Although most 1955 DD cents
probably have been grabbed off by knowledgeable collectors or are
languishing in the maws of bulk copper penny hoarders, I would think
that an errant 1955 DD has a much longer life expectancy out there in
circulation than a 100-year-old specimen. An obviously old, brown
1909 is going to attract a lot of eyeballs and will quickly be pulled,
even by non-collectors. A middling circulated 1955 strike, single or
double, is not going to do that. I still see 1950s cents mixed into
rolls and change, which is why I changed my post from the VDB to the
DD. The last time I got a 1909 cent of any variety in circulation was
way back when Sister Consommé was drilling the Holy Trinity into my
noggin while visions of filled Whitman folders danced in my head.

While it may be true that a 55DD has a much longer life expectancy in
circulation than an SVDB, the fact remains that the only way one is
going
to find either is for, as you say, raided/stolen caches to enter
circulation, and there have to be collectively at least ten SVDBs in
those caches for every 55DD. The trick, of course, is to be that
*first*
pair of eyeballs in either case! I never had that good fortune, even
back in nineteen mumbly nine when I was doing Luther's Small Catechism,
while secretly lusting after the female members of the class. Oh, and
I,
too, lusted after filled Whitman folders.

James the Doubly Deprived

C'mon guys. You've drifted away from the Toyota topic and started
talking
about coins. You're gonna be the cause of more RCC'ers leaving in here
a
huff. Or in a Chevy.

Bruce
finder of two 1955 DDO's in 1956.

Damn, what were we thinking, James???

i have a 56 huff ragtop with chrome wheels. it has the small block pcgs
holder
with the puce label.

Are they factory chrome wheels? I suspect the 56-D huff offered them even
though there's no proof. The 56 did come with proof.