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In Your Opinion, What Year For Lincoln Cents Is The Best For Any Varieties?

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 Posted 10/03/2017  8:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mark1959 to your friends list

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Wow Mark! I didn't even know about that one. That's pretty bad though.


Yep, them ebay sellers know all the tricks!
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 Posted 10/03/2017  8:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Those ebay sellers are pretty sneaky and clever when it comes to supposed "OBW" rolls. Another way to help find out if the roll might be fake is to look at the seller's feedback and see if any buyer said the rolls are not OBW. But stick with seeing if the roll has been tampered with and rewrapped.
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 Posted 10/04/2017  11:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add luvmyCAM to your friends list
1966, and also the 1966. Sorry crazybo I couldn't resist harharhar.
Seriously though the only unopened rolls I buy are at shops, flea markets, and other collectors, in hand you can tell if any tampering has been done. Also many 1974 D bank rolls have 74 S coins mixed in them thanks to a unpopular mint director decades ago. If you can pop a 66+ 1974S out you got a dandy registry coin.
My vote is for the stepchild year 1974, several different variety mixed in.
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 Posted 10/04/2017  11:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
That's a very interesting fact you told me luvmyCAM. I didn't know about that. Thank you for the new information!
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 Posted 10/05/2017  03:14 am  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list
I made a mistake early on (as in within the last year) of buying a supposed OBW half-roll of Buffalo nickels off ebay. When I received it, one crimped end was legit. The other...obviously opened and "re-crimped". Frayed fibers from the wrapper all over the place and too pliable to be original.

Any guesses as to what I found in it?

...That's right: nothing. All very circulated commons. I learned the lesson real quick.

They may have served a purpose, however, because I sent them to coin197 to hand out to YNs at the World's Fair of Money.
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 Posted 10/05/2017  10:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
That's too bad you got ripped off on the rolls, but at least they served a purpose. We all learn from our mistakes.
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 Posted 10/15/2017  09:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadToTheBone to your friends list
Myself I'd say the 1982 cents would certainly be in the running for varieties.
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 Posted 10/15/2017  10:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
I agree with that BadToTheBone. 1982 is a great year for varieties. Thank you for your opinion! :)
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 Posted 10/15/2017  10:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bump111 to your friends list
I agree that the 1982 series is interesting from a variety standpoint. My issue with them is that, as a rule, they are poorly-struck and unattractive coins, even the coppers. The early 60s are generally prettier coins, especially in EDS (but they worked dies to death then which may be why there are so many varieties.)
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Bump111, I agree with you on that. A lot of them are poorly struck and tons of them are usually in a Late or Very Late Die State. Reminds me of the Wheat cents from the 50's since a lot of them were poorly struck and usually were in a Late Die State or Very Late Die State. The Mint back in the 1950's would overwork the dies to death, causing major Die Breaks or Catastrophic Die Failure. That's why the Wheat cents from the 1950's were easier to find Cuds and other errors.
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 Posted 10/16/2017  9:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dookie to your friends list
pick one but hunt anything when you need to eat I look for one never been discovered
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I definitely agree with what you said Dookie. I have found undiscovered Doubled Dies before CRH and got them listed on doubleddie.com.
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 Posted 10/16/2017  10:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinCollector2000 to your friends list
From a doubled die standpoint, 1972 is the obvious choice. But, two more affordable rolls may be 2006 P and 2009 Formative Years.
RPMs will be 1956 - 60 D.
Clashes/Cuds will be 1983/84
Trail Dies - 1994 (the 90s in general, with the nicest ones coming from 94, 1994P-1DER-023T)
etc
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 Posted 11/11/2017  11:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Thank you for the suggestions. Those are good years for Varieties.
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 Posted 11/11/2017  12:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add stoneman227 to your friends list
Years ago I bought bunches of rolls. Years ago means I was getting 46-S cent rolls for under 20 bucks !
Original bank rolls were not a thing then. What got me going was tubed rolls with clear tape around the lids that had yellowed with age. Just about guaranteed to not have been cherried.
Don't get depressed if you get skunked on rolls. Ir will happen.
As many rpm's as 1960-d cents have , I was skunked by a mint sewn 1960-d bag . 5000 bright shinny non rpm's ! Other times half the roll are winners!
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