It's worth looking more than once when searching!

eagames · Expert Member

I have been re-checking some rolls that I searched long ago. I have learned that pictures can be mis-interpreted so I expect to see a variety at a glance but then when I find one I realize it takes more magnification or is harder to see than it looks in a photo. So I'm sharing my learning to re-check those searched rolls again as your skill, knowlege and lenses improve you may find more varieties. Recently from re-checking and from using this awesome web site I have found:
1952 DDO#1
1952-D RPM-15
1942-D DDO#1
1955-S WDDO#1
1941-D DDO#1 (but I'm not 100% sure if they are DDO#1 yet)
1944 DDO#2
1971 DDO#4 (thought it was another but ANACS said #4)
They might not be 55 DDO #1 but I get excited by each find and it motivates me to keep on looking.

coop · Expert Member

Ed: I've been through most of my rolls at least twice and some 3-4 times. But before I sell any rolls, I plan on looking again....

Bob P · Site Admin

Ed....That is quite a collection you have Re-found! Great coins. I am sure glad that this forum and our web-site has enabled you to find that stuff...especially after already searching the rolls before. I have been searching for well over 35 years, and even as recently as last week, I pulled a variety from a roll I had searched before. I think coop nailed it when he said he goes through his rolls again before he sells them. I would do the same, but I try not to sell anything. I like having about a million or so opennies laying all around the house Laughing

Once again...GREAT STUFF!

coop · Expert Member

Sounds like Bob has to shovel his way to the door... LOL

raydar · New Member

I cannot part with my rolls either. My wife closes the door to my office when I'm at my day job. LOL. Went thru a roll of 55-D cents a few month back and found the doubled eye ddo. I don't think I will ever sell them, and like you guys say, I will look again, in-between searching circ rolls I buy from the bank!

coop · Expert Member

You would swear that they grow doubled dies and RPMs in the rolls, but they don't. We just missed them the last time around or we learned something new since them.

Bob P · Site Admin

Even so Coop, if they are going to start 'growing' varieties in those rolls I have already searched, you'd think they would give you a hint. Nothing big...maybe a few flashing signs that say ' Look at me again please...you missed one or two' Laughing

Another variety found just last night in a roll of 41P. 1941P-1DO-006 found in a roll I searched just last year! This is a biggie for the date, and hard to finds in any condition.
If you take a look at the pics on the site, you can understand how I might have missed it, but the ones on the site are both mine already! I guess the moral of the story is...even though you know what you are looking for, things CAN and WILL be missed. In a case like this...lighting is everything.