A leading rarity among 20th century U.S. Mint varieties, the 1958 Doubled Die Obverse cent was unknown to the numismatic community until the early 1980s. In 1983 or 1984 ERRORAMA in Cherry Hill, New Jersey made the first report of this variety. As of the 1996 publication of David W. Lange's book The Complete Guide to Lincoln Cents only a single example (the discovery specimen?) had been certified by the leading third party grading services. That coin, certified MS-64 RD by ANACS as of Lange's writing, seems to have since been crossed to a PCGS holder. To date, only three examples of this variety have been positively confirmed to exist, which total squares with the three grading events reported on the PCGS Population Report. The three certified examples are as follows:

1 - PCGS MS-65 RD. Part of the Stewart Blay Collection.
2 - PCGS MS-64 RD.
3 - PCGS MS-64 RD.

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the March 2018 Baltimore Auction, where it realized $336,000.