the 44 d/s

[gription]

i have looked at.. must be a million 44 d's now. a new handful every day. *never found a single one*

how RARE are these coins exactly? why haven't i found one? i've found basically everything but this one..


there were 430.5 million 44D's made.. how many T1 & T2's exist? what's the ratio.. any idea?



answer me this.. if i look through X amount of 44d's, i should find a d/s - what is X? :shrug:

[GarryN]

What I did was go to www.lincolncent.com and looked through 12 1944-D cents and I found two 1944 D/S Type 2.

[Dick]

Garrun, I went there, registered, and looged in, BUT, I was never able to see any coins. what did I do, or not do?
Dick

[gription]

[gription]

[eagames]

Gripton,

I looked forever and have not found either of them

But I did get something good.....
I was searching a BU 44-d roll and thought I had a D/S but looking closer it was D/D RPM-7 FS-021.11 and there were 4 of them in the roll. They looked so good I sent all 4 to ANACs for grading.

I got back 2 in MS65-RED and 1 MS66-RED and nearly fainted since the last one got MS67-RED!!!!

I don't pay much attention to top pop grades but there must not be a lot of these graded 67-RED so I was happy but I'm still searching for either D/S.

[gription]

very nice

[Bob P]

I too have searched thousands of 1944D coins. I did in fact find a D/S #1 about a year ago. I have also found 6 of the D/S#2. There is no way we can make a formula that would work as far as finding a specific variety. No one knows how many have already been found and how many are still in circulation. Since I found mine only last year, then that shows that there was at least 1 still out there. I had given up on finding one, but as you all know...when you least expect it, you may very well get lucky.

[gription]

well i know there's no formula, i know it doesn't exactly work like that.. this one is just frustrating me beyond belief, and has been forever. i think i'm gonna just buy one, or both. if they show up i'll sell the worst ones i guess.


tough coin apparently.. that premium is indeed justified

[GarryN]

My point is that the coin is not prohibitively expensive. If you add up the value of 1944-D cents you may have purchased, and the time you spend searching, that adds up to much more than the cost of the coin. In my opinion, I would buy the coin and the time would be better spent studying it.

[gription]

sorry, yeah as soon as i hit 'submit' i knew you weren't that dopey

you're right too..

[GarryN]

Thanks Gription, only my wife knows for sure

[eagames]

Both things are true.

Sometimes it's worth it to buy a neat variety if you want it.
Some things like a 55 DDO you might never find.

But looking at millions of cent's is fun for me and I find stuff when I least expect it.

Often when trying for a given variety I don't find it but find something else to motivate the search along.

As long as you get rid of the coins after you search them it's not a waste of money, you can tube the searched roll and sell or trade it and try again.

[gription]

so i picked up one of each.. after studying #2, i learned that i already had 2 put aside that i wasn't sure of

thanks for the advice Garry..

[aballein]

my mother found a '22 weak D in her cash register in san antonio texas a few weeks ago....never stop looking, a wise man once said....life is like a box of chocolates