2009

All 2009 coins are hoarded. Heck, even I have about 8 rolls of LP-1, 15ish rolls of LP-2, and 2 rolls of DC quarters. I've seen ebay listings of "one BU roll from stash" with EIGHT BOXES of 2009 nickels shown.

Here's my xtra thumb stashed away in an airtite.

I have gathered all 20 different varieties of the 2009 Lincoln Cent.
One year fills a whole page of a binder!

ebay and the low mintage is why they are more scarce. Whoever got lucky enough to find say a whole box and sat on it for a while can now get those rolls out to people who otherwise have no way to find them for quick short-term profits.

There is less than 3 nickels from 2009 for each man woman and child in the US. 1/8th minted vs 2008 or 2010. It isn't really about years away, people want the things NOW to fill the holes NOW and have trade bait, even if for something else strange and worth little.

There is less than 9 million 1999-P Kennedy halves and people don't hoard them and they are all in bad shape that I have seen.

What it shows slightly is people will collect rarer things. Something they think there is not enough to go around so everyone can have one.

so PDub, when it comes to 2009 people know they were seeing less and started keeping more. But with Westward Journey series nickels they still made about 400 million of each mint mark for each year. That's 800 million coins per year compared to 80 million for 2009

To get the pennies you really only need to get boxes of pennies and go through them. Quarters are plentiful out there except that one Island with the D mintmark. halves, who knows if anyone is really stockpiling those, its only nickels and dimes because so MANY nickels and dimes exist. 1964 alone had over 2 billion nickels minted! Dimes only had 150 million total.

Just keep looking you will find the 2009 pennies. Also consider Littleton probably has the majority of them since they have sets they give with just about everything a first time buyer from them can get in one of their newspaper ads.

IF you are lucky you can get your bank to order you a box. You might have to get rid of the ones you don't keep at a Coinstar, but the box is only $25 and @17 pounds.

Now it might take you checking several banks, but be sure to let them know you will NOT be bringing the coins back. The back SHOULD be able to order an extra box to come in with their regular delivery. IF no bank will order you a box (some only do it for business account holders, while others may do it for personal account holders) you may still be able to get lucky with CWRs Customer Wrapped Rolls.

the CWRs could have things better than 2009 pennies in it. You would need to check the threads in the Coin Roll Hunting sub forum to see all the things possible to find that customers of a bank come in to deposit, but it could basically be anything from a 2009 to Flying Eagle, to a Canadian or Trinadad and Tobago penny!

for boxes they go like this:
$1000 small dollar coins (40 rolls of 25)
$500 halves or quarters (50 rolls)
$250 dimes (50 rolls)
$100 nickels (50 rolls)
$25 pennies (50 rolls)

Sometimes CWR can be better than a box, because you could end up with a box of bright and shiny 2015 pennies and that wont help you get your 2009s.

IF you are lucky, your coinstar might offer free e-gift certificates to places like Amazon, or Best Buy, Lowes Hardware or Home Depot.. you can check on Coinstar website which offers it has near you with a zip code search of their kiosks. This means you might be able to get the leftovers counted for free and not have to just cash in the coins with the 10.8% fee.

That 1943 cent might be a reprocessed one,just sayin'
John1