How Many Members Are Collecting Lincoln Cents

I never had the desire to do anything with the Lincoln Cent except throw them in big containers. I did, however, get a couple of folders the other day 1941-present and am almost done filling in the holes. I've also started looking for errors.

Ghostrider
Sounds like you are putting a nice hoard of Lincoln Cent away.

I know how easy it is to keep getting so many coins, that it gets hard getting the best coins into one set.

For me I have rolls and rolls of Lincoln cents .. and Washington quarters .. that I have never searched.

Good luck with your collection.

I guess understand ... that did sound like a ebay auction ..

So I should have said that better .. most of the rolls of Lincolns I have are uncirculated .. some I got from banks, in the 70's and 80's .. some from collections I have bought and sold.

I keep telling myself I will search though them .. looking for high grade coins .. but never seem to have time.

panzaldi for me it is a question of numbers. 2009 mintage accross all issues amounted to 2.3 billion coins, you have to go back almost 40 years to find that low of a mintage which was caused by the economic downturn that stymied the need for coins. 2009 was a low water mark for a number of coins with the production of some coins ceasing for the year in March or April.

Couple the low production volume with many people (myself included) buy mint rolls because they liked the issue there just are that many in circulation. To the belief of some, there will come a time when people who have mint rolls will dump those rolls on the market or back into circulation. However, I don't think that this would have much of an impact because of the low production numbers. In fact, based upon what I've seen while doing roll searching the "Presidency" is almost non-exixtant in circulation. Less that 390 million coins over 2 mints just isn't a lot of coins for circulation.

Take a look at the coin facts on this forum to see.

However, for me I just plain old like the year's issue and am willing to save what I come accross (which quite frankly isn't a lot). Roughly estimating the numbers, I've found a many 2009 pennies in the boxes I've searched as the number of wheat backed coins that I've collected over the past year (both issuances).

But that's just what I've observed. You may find something different plus I asmit that I'm no expert on anything.

I know a lot of people collect all the 2009s they find. I don't do it, but I just choose not to. I will say I have a BU roll of all four designs from P and D mints though, just in case one day the world comes down with "2009 Lincoln Fever" or something. But overall, it's interesting how many collectors do hoard all the 2009s they can get.

My very first collection was Lincoln Cents. I had a complete non-error circulating coin (back to that in a minute) set except the 1909 S VDB. I finally pulled the trigger and bought one for myself last year.

My album GEM-5 album has a spot for that 1922 no D, but no spots for the 1909 S over horizontal S, or any of the other error coins. Why is the 22 so special? The GEM only goes up to 1961. I have a 1959-current date Littleton album which does not include proofs. I have a few proof sets but I'll be darned if I'll break them up.

Maybe I need to go whole hog and aim for a complete 22 no D plus proofs set, but I haven't decided on that yet.

This irritates me too. My album has a 22 no-D space but no space for other errors. I do not think error coins belong in a circulation set so I have no intention of buying the 22 no-D. BUT...one day I may decide to do so, just to fill the hole with something other than a blank planchet. This will be after I complete a second set though and have a lot of other things I want in life, like that new cabin cruiser boat and part-ownership in the Texas Rangers and things like that.