1949-s ddo solved

[eagames]

A while back I found 2 nice unc 49-s which I thought were the ddo die-1. I sent one to ANACs and they sent it back without the attrib saying not the requested variety I thought they must be wrong since at that time I thought there's just the one blunt over pointed 4 ddo for the year. (I think it was the only one listed here then) Recently I was looking on the site and saw there's 2 blunt over pointed 4 varieties listed and ones also an rpm but that one is not die 1 I looked and realized I had one of each and the one I had sent in was the one with the rpm so ANACs was right since that one is not die 1. So I can chalk it up as another mystery solved by this site!

Does anyone know if the second one 1D0-002/1MM-013 was recently added to this site?

[Bob P]

Ed,
I discovered the new DDO/RPM combo in November of last year. I put out a thread in the forum asking folks to check their DDO # 001's to make sure they had that DDO, and not the one with the RPM. It turned out that there were about 6 or seven folks who found out theirs also contained an RPM. I added that die to the site in November 2005. As far as I know, we are the only ones to identify this second blunt 4 over pointed 4 doubled die and RPM combination.

[eagames]

Thanks bob,

That fits the timeframe, I must have looked just before you added the DDO/RPM combo.

I'm still amazed that Anacs figured out that the one I submitted was not the same as DDO-1, the timeframe was about right so they might have read your thread to know there were 2 types of blunt over pointed 4s.

[Bob P]

It amazes me too Ed. Unless they immediately picked up on the RPM, there would have been no way for them to know it wasn't the same as DDO-001. The mintmark positioning is close but not exact, and the doubling is also. I know they don't spend a lot of time on each coin, so maybe markers were the determining factor??

[coppercoins]

I find it odd that they would return the coin instead of holdering it with the proper number...I guess they don't do that??

[eagames]

I think the reason is when you submit to ANACs you can pay $10 for their attribution then they figure it out. In this case I didn't do that since I thought there was only one type of blunt over pointed 4 for the year.

Or you pay $5 for verification and you tell them the variety, if you are wrong they just holder with no attribution. On a few occasions they will say DDO but not which one. In this case they just holdered it with nothing but grade.