The lowest you could buy Darkcoin for was around .001 to .002.  The first real exchange it was on was Poloniex and was pumped almost immediately to that point.  It was basically not possible or unfeasible to mine due to all the issues I listed in this post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=560138.msg6719823#msg6719823

So that means 99% of people who wanted anything to do with this coin were forced to buy in at .001 - .002 while the developer and a couple of his friends who flash mined it with Amazon instances, no windows release, and block rewards "erroneously" set to 500 instead of 50 owned everything.

These are the 100% honest to truth Darkcoin facts, as I have witnessed this coin since it's first arrival on exchanges.

There was a couple days interval before they pumped it to .001-.002, but at that point, people didn't know if the coin was even going to continue as is, or just be abandoned or re-launched due to it's failed launch with block rewards set to 500 instead of 50.