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Bedrock of the Community
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Chris, I'm going to come in at night and cherry-pick all your rolls! LOLOLOL
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United States
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So for those of you who were worried about completing your Lincoln collections!
I don't think anyone (including myself) truly grasps how many millions and millions of lincolns have been squirelled and hoarded and "collected" away.
The number is simply enormous but don't lose sight of the fact that most of the pre-1955 rolls originally saved have been busted up. Also keep in mind that because most collec- tors gave up saving new coins in 1965 we have the odd situ- ation that most available rolls are '59- 64 plus '73- '76 and with a smattering of '79 to '81. There are also large numbers of a few of the dates from the '90's but others of these are elusive. Then the last few years are probably pretty common and at least haven't had time to get busted up. None of the dates back to 1930 are truly rare and even the '09-S VDB can probably be found with effort. The '14-D should be down well into single digits. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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This is the amazing thing about coin collecting. To my mind having rolls and rolls, or hundreds and hundreds of virtually the same coin would bore me rigid! And yet someone else might only collect variations of that one coin!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thad,
Just seal them back up when you done! I started opening some of them, looking for varieties and high grades to send in.
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Valued Member
United States
94 Posts |
Chris - That is an awesome array of rolls that you have there! I have a large collection of lincoln opened bank rolls or Choice/BU rolls that have been opened dating back to 1943. I sure hope though that most of those OBW rolls are good. I have recently been thinking of joining PCGS to get some coins graded, and I have two 1954 OBW rolls with incredible toning on the end coins (One of them has the paper cap on the end.) The other night, I finally opened one of them thinking there is got to be a 66 in there ($500 on PCGS price guide). I would be lucky to get a worthless 64 out of the bunch - lots of spots and cuts. I was heartbroken!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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eagle1 - Welcome to the world of Lincolns! LOL
Finding gem coins is very difficult, especially with the Memorial series.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sometime opening the rolls is nothing but a disappointment. At the same time the value drops. I have been there. There are 2 sides of this though, you find the 54 in 67-68 you hit the jackpot. You find a rare variety and you hit it again. Some think taking them out of the wrapper helps preserve them, it probably does, at the same time the value drops.
I joined PCGS to do the same, if you take advantage of the quarterly specials, register some sets and get them 90% complete for free grading, it is not a bad deal.
I just opened a roll that all of the mint marks were blobs, other than that there were some real nice wheats in there. I opened one of my 1955 roll, all cracked skull's with weak strikes.
I started saving the different wrappers when I open them, they are nice for reference on what year came out of it.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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This could be the start of something? If you only knew what you were getting yourself into! It will start with just the coppers, then progress into 59-08 then the wheats. |
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United States
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If I can find a roll for a couple of dollars then I will try to pick it up. But like others, I usually go home and break them open and upgrade my collection and put them into plastic tubes so I do not ding them up at all. I need to go back and look though, for some reason I think I have about 10 rolls of 1960D or P's that I have not gone through yet.
Chris, you are a man after my own heart because I would love to do the same thing you are doing and have a roll for each year. I have been doing it with the Memorials as much as I can and need to double check what I have and make sure everything has a date on it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you don't break them open they are just a roll of cents .
I have never met a roll of cents I didn't open ! LOL actually I shouldn't say that , I bought 10 rolls of 90-Ds and opened all but two .
anyway I have almost never met a roll I didn't open .
by the way ,I was able to Identify three different reverse dies and two different obverse dies from the rolls I opened .
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New Member
United States
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I have a BU roll set that is complete from 1950 to date. But I'm very slowly working my way back as I get them. Ive actually started working on the earlier Wheat cent rolls, from 5,000 count bags. I was surprised at the quality I'm finding, as well as the quantity. And I'm actually getting a nice chunk of some of the tougher rolls, that way. |
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United States
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I just brought Lincoln Cent OBW rolls for the following years at my local coin shop. 1957,1957-D, 1958 and 1958-D $10 per roll. about a month ago at my coin club meeting I got the following Lincoln Cent OBW rolls all for $22 in our auction. 1973 - 2 rolls 1973-D - 2 rolls 1974 - 2 rolls 1974-D - 2 rolls 1976 - 5 rolls 1982 - 9 rolls I thought that was a good buy. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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1957,1957-D, 1958 and 1958-D $10 per roll I think $10 a roll is a great price. I was able to pick up 2 rolls of '58s on ebay for $23 and that's about as cheap as they go there. I got free shipping on 2nd roll or it would have been $25 for those 2. This thread got me going on BU rolls. Received 7 rolls of LMC last week and they're nice but I'm gonna stick with wheaties. |
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I get a few rolls usually from the bank. Then search them and end up making a roll of dates by mintmark and just keep them. Later I go back through them for specific varieties. So the number keeps rising. Just like searching.
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