A tough variety finally found

Bob P · Site Admin

Hi Folks,
Believe it or not, I have found three 1984 doubled ear varieties over the years before finally finding this one. It is a 1984P-1DO-002, a cherry pickers listed variety, and as you can tell from the photos, it is a very nice variety, and to me anyway...has been extremely difficult to locate. I found this one in a circ roll of memorials I picked up from the bank last week. I am kinda curious now...has anyone else found one of these? I hear very little of it, and don't think I have seen one for sale.

eagames · Expert Member

Hi Bob,

I've searched high and low for it and never found it.

Only seen one ever listed for sale and in the add it said it was the plate coin from the CPG! It's a tough one to find.

Congrats! Very Happy

JRocco · Veteran Member

Congrats Bob,
This coin has been on my list for quite a while also. I have searched more rolls of 84 than I care to admit and this one still eludes me.
Great find.

coop · Expert Member

Very nice find Bob. Wish stuff like that would pass under my scope. I've haven't found nothing so long that I've almost stopped looking a Cents from Phoenix. I think Ed is getting them before for me and I must be getting his rejects. Wink

Dick · Expert Member

That is a nice pair of photos!. Sure would like to see the "ear"! I have a bunch of '84's, and ALL that come into my "grimy-hands", never see circulation again. None of the others do, either, for that matter! I can't see them well enough to be positive, with out marker photos, or as much info as possible, to ID them. The MD, thing. Sure wish one of my Heirs would finally let me know that they are into varieties, etc, and then let me know! I'd hate to think maybe the work i've done so far would be for naught, and the coins would be spent on candy, or beer. Of course, I could leave it all to the forum, and let them finish what I started. Maybe they would find a couple more for the photo database. "Just tell them where they came from".
Dick

Bob P · Site Admin

You brought up something that made me laugh Dick. Very few coins that I search ever make it back into circulation either. I'm afraid that when I go buy more boxes or bags of coins, they would be the ones I had already searched through. Why take a chance??? My daughter wanted to know why there are almost a quarter of a million pennies here Laughing

Pretty soon....the banks and Brinks are gonna come here to get their pennies!!

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

This MAY be the 1984P-1DO-002 and the reason that I say may is due to the die state, which is boardering on VLDS.

While the extra thickness is there for the date, LIBERTY is just to far gone to make a definite attribution.

BJ Neff

Dick · Expert Member

BJ, are you sure you haven't made a trip "out west", recently? That cent looks like ALL my cents! Barely enough left to ID the coin as a cent. Date notwithstanding! I was hoping you would show the "ear", but maybe next time.
In looking again at the photo, I see there is no "D", so It couldn't possibly be one of mine that I DROPPED, OR SOMETHING.
Bob, Aren't we supposed to have that many cents at hand? I am going to try something as soon as I get this box of quarters checked out, and the missing ones "made up for". Then I want to see if my bank has any rolls of halves! Odds are they won't, but I'n going to tell them since I have been one of their customers, for more than 55 years, maybe the Vault teller/manager, might actually look! I'll take all they have, (if my bank account will support it. Otherwise, I'll only take what I can this month, and go back the first! Last batch I got was 25 coins. Stay cool, baby cause it has been HOT these days!
Dick

Bob P · Site Admin

Dick,
I have finally got my bank to get me pretty much any coins I want. They have a Brinks truck deliver on Wednesdays and Fridays. If I ask them real nice (and take the tellers for dinner and wine), they will try to accomodate my requests. The only thing they haven't been able to get are new boxes of cents. I much prefer the circ Brink wrapped rolls anyway. That is where the 84P=1DO-002 came from.

aballein · Veteran Member

the only 1984 DDO that i have found was actually the 1984D-1D0-001 but i search every 1984 cent that comes my way though...some day....maybe

Dick · Expert Member

Bob, I like the sealed boxes of cents, and quarters. I don't know about the other denominations, but I imagine they are sealed, as well, (nickels, and dimes). Dimes, I save all of them, and the nickels don't interest me. I di like the cent, and quarter. I have gotten everything from the coin indicated on the box, to washers, truck-wash tokens coins from many countries, qurter-sized, and dimes in cent rolls. You name it, I probably have one from a roll! As far as "wineing, and dining the ladies, "terrers", I don't know about that. I haven't had much trouble getting boxes, so faar. I am going to go after rolls of half-dollars. Maybe find some, (somewhere, maybe).
As Will Rogers used to say, "I hopa-hopa-hope"!
Dick

murphy · Senior Member

Congrats Bob, that is a very nice find. Smile

hasfam · Veteran Member

Hi Bob,
I found one some years ago, maybe in 2000 or 2001 and sold in on ebay. The buyer was real happy with it. It was in great condition and the doubling was clear and strong. Haven't found another one since.
Rock

Bob P · Site Admin

I guess all of your inputs answered my question quite convincingly. I have managed to track down only 6 auctions for this variety since 1999. I compare that to over 1100 for the 1984 doubled earlobe. Quite a difference although the doubled earlobe is considered a major variety, and the 002 is not.
Time to find another one! Hope fully, it wont take another 23 years to find one.

notabot · Advanced Member

I have, like all of you, searched countless pennies, and it's great to read a post which tells me about a coin I had no idea existed. I saw the pic and just knew I was gonna have to look through my rolls YET AGAIN, for this beauty. As scarce as this is, I am interested, what are these selling for? Anyone have a general price guestimate?