How Many Members Are Collecting Lincoln Cents

If the blue/green corrosion is crusty, it is probably verdigris. Check out Verdi-Care developed by BadThad of CCF. Just do a search. Works really well.

If the blue/green is slimy looking, it might be PVC damage from older style plastic coin flips. People use acetone to remove that but often the coin is damaged underneath. I don't have experience personally with PVC damage.

Looking at pricing, I saw a big break point between MS-63 and MS-64 for a lot of the S mints especially. Sometimes a 64 is 2x or even 3x the price of a 63. So while I have some 64's in the set for sure, I will drop down to find the best price point because honestly, there's a lot of judgement involved in my opinion between single number grades. Maybe less so if you are buying certified top-3, but even then sometimes. My thoughts at least and not trying to dissuade you from building a certified MS-64 set if that's your goal and you have the budget! That would be one heck of a set.

Since I have a completed set, I am now trying to upgrade it. Initially I said anything older than 1921 would be VG or higher, but I think I am going to go for the gusto and try for all MS-60 or better. My goal is to upgrade one cent a month at a minimum. I only have 42 more to upgrade!

I am hording copper pennies, I figured why not, for now we can't melt them down but who know one day. I will purchase $100 in pennies and collect all the copper out, remove all the Wheaties. The oldest I have found so far has been a 1917 and I also pulled a blank copper planchet from a $50 bag. When I first started hording copper I was getting about a 25% take in copper and now its about 10% if I am lucky. My goal is to get one metric ton of copper pennies, minus the Wheaties. I have approximately 100 pounds now.

I absolutely love collecting cents, although I don't really spend to much on them as I am only 17 and in college, but just the same I love my IHC's, LWC's, and LMC's.

For my Lincoln's I only have 13 spots left to fill, although, as you might guess most of them are expensive. The ones that I am still missing are the big 5 (1909s vdb, 1909s, 1914d, 1922 plain, and the 1931s), as well as the 1913s, 1914s, 1915s, 1921s, 1922d, 1926s, 1927s, and the 1970s sm dt.

I got most of them by buying them but I did find some such as my 1925 in AU+, my 1930d in XF, my 1931 in XF, and some BU 1940's and 50's

Although recently I have been trying out for more silver than anything else cents are my favorite

I DID like these...... then I dunno what happened but I lost interest.

I learned about silver and gold eagles and started collecting those and never came back to the Lincolns.

I really believe copper will go up in value from the demand of the emerging markets and developed countries needing to build infrastructure in the next 20 years.

The series is really good with lots of things to collect in the series with the long run, varieties, errors, rotations, etc. Its just so easy and affordable to get started but I'm finding out here after reading the numerous entries on this site and the Lincoln Red Book that there is just a lot to learn about this series.

My collection is from 1909 to current. It grades from AU to MS. It also includes proofs.. I have my collection in a Dansco album.