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Bigchip22 Valued Member Canada 458 Posts	Posted 12/31/2016 01:18 am lucky to find anything worth anything today change, maybe you might luck out with something Report this Post to the Staff
davec13 Pillar of the Community United States 757 Posts	Posted 12/31/2016 07:36 am The 31s was one of the easiest ones to track down for me. Every coin show I attend there are multiple 31s in every condition available. The 14d on the other hand is a bear to track down in decent conditions. Not to mention a 64rd 31s is a $300 coin while the 14d in 64rd is a $8,000+ coin. I also think the non key early date cents are harder to find than the keys. Everyone knows the keys are "valuable" so they have been sent off to be graded in droves. You'll have an easier time finding an 09s vbd than you will finding just a plain old 09s. Report this Post to the Staff
KenKat Pillar of the Community United States 4085 Posts	Posted 01/01/2017 12:31 pm Agree 31-S was an easy buy. Like a supermarket of them. The last two I added in MS63RB were very hard to find at a reasonable price - 24-D and 15-S. Looked for the better part of a year before I found a 24-D on Great Collections for a little over 500 and a 15-S for around 650 on ebay. Ones with decent eye appeal under 4 figures are scarce. Now I have to let the budget recover a bit! My 7070 US Type Set My 7100 Lincoln Cent Set (now with updates!) Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 188952 Posts	Posted 01/01/2017 11:50 pm Quote: The 31s was one of the easiest ones to track down for me. Every coin show I attend there are multiple 31s in every condition available. It was not as easy for me to track down a nice brown one for my set, but once I did it seemed like they suddenly became more common. Although, higher grade red and red-brown have always seemed plentiful. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
Antt3377 New Member United States 32 Posts	Posted 01/19/2017 10:16 am Growing up I thought a 1914-D penny was the rarest thing in the world. My brother and I searched rolls of pennies looking for that coin. Today I doubt you can find a Wheat penny from before 1920 in your change if you checked a 100 rolls of pennies or a thousand rolls. I think this is a reason coin collecting is becoming a hobby for the elites. You have to buy every single scarce or collectible coin there is now. When the coins go from Silver to silver clad and from 5 million pennies to five billion mintage you know they will never be worth ten cents if you live to 100. Clad coins are just junk IMO and you pay more for them brand new than they are worth. A 2016 penny is not worth a penny sinc...QUOTEDTerry8835 Ive pulled some good coins from 100s of rolls checked, incuding a 1909 svdb and a 1914 D even a 1919 penny that is in great shape. Ive picked up rolls from different towns amd states while traveling. 10 rolls at one place landed me over 100 wheat heads. A buddy whos relative collected pennies in a huge jar for the purpose of turning them into the bank for cash... those are the instances where my mind thinks jackpot! Ill gladly give them cash for their penny jar when theyre ready. The thought of getting a 1,000$ payday from pocket change was reason enough for me to start paying attention to my cents. The rest just kinda took off on its own and now its another hobby that I enjoy doing. Edited by Antt3377 01/19/2017 10:17 am Report this Post to the Staff
GR58 Bedrock of the Community United States 11951 Posts	Posted 01/19/2017 10:29 am I have been working in a local coin shop for several years. We see hundreds of Lincoln collections each year. Most of the sets are missing key and semi key dates. It seems like the cons that have a mintage under 10 milion are the Lincolns most often missing. Some semi keys to me are 1924 D 1926 S 1922 D Pre 1916 "S" mint coins. I would not say these are rare coins ... maybe from the old days of collecting wheats from change, semi key dates were much harder to find. Report this Post to the Staff
Ross Son Valued Member United States 173 Posts	Posted 01/19/2017 5:33 pm Quote: Today I doubt you can find a Wheat penny from before 1920 in your change if you checked a 100 rolls of pennies or a thousand rolls. I have to agree that it is very tough to find pre-1920 wheat while CRH with rolls you get from the bank today. All my pre-1920 came from wheat rolls I bought. But I still find wheat pennies, majority being in the 1930's and up, on rolls that I get from the bank. My best finding in a roll that I got from the bank was a 1909 VDB. A newbie like myself was able to complete the Lincoln album shown below, which starts from 1940, with rolls that I got from the bank since I started this hobby, with the exception of the steel pennies. Those I found in wheat rolls. Report this Post to the Staff
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