# The 1955 Double-Die Penny.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1955-double-die-penny/763728>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 23, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1955-double-die-penny/763728 "2016-08-23T10:27:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1955-double-die-penny/763728/41 "2017-02-21T22:35:36Z")

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My best coin find ever was when I was a kid and someone gave me one of those Whitman coin folders for pennies. At that time ALL pennies were wheaties, of course. I had filled all but one slot. One day, I’m walking along staring at the ground and saw something metallic in a mud puddle. I picked it up and it was the 1909 S VDB penny understandably missing from my collection.

I knew nothing about coin values at that age and never bothered to find out what any of them were worth. I was only trying to fill the holes in the folder. Yeah, they got spent on some trifle at some point. :smack:

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1955-double-die-penny/763728/42 "2017-02-22T00:56:21Z")

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My best coin finds have been an 1870 Indian-head penny and a 1938 buffalo nickel. Probably not worth all that much, but cool to own something that existed before my great-grandfather was born, and to have acquired it randomly. (at least one of them, I’m pretty sure)

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