1955 double die

Rhubarb · Senior Member

I also am glad you figured out how to post pictures. That is a Great looking coin.

David

coop · Expert Member

Nice catch Carl. It is probably (well in my case) a coin that we have longed for for years. Probably not too many of them. Probably the only one you would find at a coin show. (I've never found one at our local show anyway.) Always great to see images of one.

carlb · Advanced Member

Dick · Expert Member

Carl, I, too am "More or less computer illiterate." Plainly said, I can build, and repair, but know very little about working from the keyboard end. Much of the applications just are too comlpex for me, BUT, getting back to the subject at hand. I go to Photobucket, and My album. It will take you to where you have the photo(s) you want to post. On each photo, there is a very small box at the lower left of the photo. Click this box on each of the ones you want. Then scroll down to the bottom where it says "generate image, etc. Click on this. Then you will scroll to a list of options for posting. I right click the message boards, and click copy. then you can leave it "open", or close, it makes no difference. Then go to the forum, and to reply, then post your text, and then enter, to put the image(s) directly below. I don't know how to post the links, (to save space on the post), so I go this route. I also like to use the 300x300, or 300X240. Either is a standard size. Hope this works for you, "cuz, it works for me"! The photos you did post are very nice. Mine don't come out that way, yet!
Dick

JRocco · Veteran Member

Hey Carl,
Congrats on your purchase. The 55 DDO is, to me, one of the key coins in the entire US coin series. I collect many different series of coins and varieties and I believe that this one coin has gotten more people into coin collecting than any other coin. It was the one coin every kid in my neck of the woods, Brooklyn, looked for in every pocketful of change.
The 55 DDO is a coin to cherish.

Bob P · Site Admin

Great looking coin, and I would say a nice bargain too. It is one coin I still don't have, so I will continue staring at the one biggie I do have (the 1972 DDO #001)!
I am glad you were able to find the info you needed in the books and on the site, and managed to post some pretty good pics also. Congrats all the way around Carl!

JRocco · Veteran Member

The 55 DDO
Probably my favorite coin in my collection.

eagames · Expert Member

WOW John!

That is nice looking and the color is great, that blue reverse is cool!

You can't loose on that coin, the prices for red or RB are rocketing up.

Cool

carlb · Advanced Member

I've always liked that 55 Double Die. I have a few in lots, lots worse condition in my albums but this one really made my day. I've got 10 sets of Lincoln Cents complete except only 4 have the 55 Double Dies. I keep on looking at this one as if it is going to go away or something. This now means my set #1 is all MS. That one was the my last attempt to do that.

smed · Senior Member

Dick · Expert Member

John, My congrats for having the luck, knowledge, and naturally, the "where-with-all" to achieve your dreams, and goals! 'Tis a thing of beauty!
Dick

carlb · Advanced Member

JRocco · Veteran Member

Hey Carl,
Do you have any 55 DDO's in lower than AU grade? I ask this because most of these monsters didn't circulated much as they are such obvious DDO's, and if you do, could you try to post a pic of it. It would be great to see a pic of one if you have a lower than AU piece.

Dick · Expert Member

Carl, maybe I should try that application. I don't get any results out of Photoshop, in spite of all the help everyone has given. Some things just don't "ring the bell"!
Dick

eagames · Expert Member

I'd like to see a circ grade 55 DDO too.

It seems most were found in AU, now many are cleaned so all I ever see is cleaned AUs and brown AUs and a few RBs and Reds. I've never seen one below an AU50!

Hard to imagine something like that being spent as a cent Surprised