Week # 82 - Use Your Common Cents

[dena]

QUESTION: The 1955 Doubled Die Obverse cents were originally known by what name?

 

 

First post with the correct answer wins a 2004 Red Book.

 

Don't forget, we also draw for a runner-up prize from all remaining posts with a correct answer.

 

Good Luck!

 

 

 

REMINDER: The Numisma-Quest ends/ended on Saturday at midnight EST. Entries after that time will not be valid. See the Trivia Info post for more details.

 

 

When you post your answer, only the administrators can see it. Stop back each Monday. We will make all the posts visible and announce the winners.

 

 

 

[jtryka]

I thought they were always known as the 1955 Double Die cents, though there was also the "poor man's double die" but I'm not sure what that was.

[spiny]

The 1955 double date?

[Hoot]

Cigarette cent, for how often it showed up in change (attached to the package) of cigarette vending machines.

 

Hoot

[rdunnit-migration]

My guess would be "The King of Kings"

[reid1836]

double nickels ?

[DAM]

How about 110s

[Elbesaar]

As I remember when they came out in the Boston area, we called them double shifts. Later other people called then double strucks. I didn't collect then I was only in the fourth grade.

[RobertB]

ghost cents?

[RGT]

Numismatic News first published the variety and called it the 1955 "shift" cent.

 

[chinook]

king of kings

 

[Danielle C.]

QUESTION: The 1955 Doubled Die Obverse cents were originally known by what name?

 

ANSWER: Shift Cents.

 

 

The winner is: Mike Hayes! Your prize is a 2004 Red Book.

 

Runner up winner is RGT, your prize is a display box.

 

 

Thanks for playing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Elbesaar]

What a surprise; I never thought I'd be the first one to answer correctly. I remember vividly when they came out, but never thought too much about them. I do remember that they were included in cigarette packages in vending machines ( two coins per pack) as the cost was twenty three cents per pack then, and the vending machine companies were a bit less profit driven back then. Maybe when a pack costs $5.75 in a vending machine, those same companies will include a Sacagawea/Washington "Mule" in every pack. (NOT).

Again, thanks alot !!

Mike Hayes