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Valued Member
United States
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1973S for me....I went through 2500 coins and had zero S mint coins...the next 2500 had zero S mints...this latest one has had 4 so far....
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Member
United States
3242 Posts |
we get a lot70-73-S in roll and just change from wally world. I just got a 69-s a week ago.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
The lack of 71S, 72S, etc is mainly due to several reasons.
1. Lots of people just save S mint cents thinking they are all rare
2. Lots of people think S Mint cents are all Proofs and save them just in case they are
3. Many know they are the last non proof cents made at the S Mint so they think some day they will be valuable and hoard them
4. From 71 to 74 the S Mint produced about 1/10th the amount of cents compared to P and D Mints.
5. Some get confused with the 70 small and large date S cents so they save all cents from the 70's just in case.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2602 Posts |
For the Cent Project I had the following:
From California area, 5000 cents:
68S: 7
69S: 11
70S: 22
71S: 14
72S: 52
73S: 25
74S: 10
From Shreveport, LA area, 5000 cents:
68S: 0
69S: 2
70S: 0
71S: 5
72S: 0
73S: 0
74S: 1
Clearly, there is a geographic bias. If you live in California, the S mint marked pennies will be easy to find. When I lived in Philly, searching through cents for more than 10 years, I had only accumulated about 30 68-74S coins.
Unfortunately, I threw all the coins back into circulation.
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Valued Member
 United States
243 Posts |
I went through a plastic container (probably 1000) pennies today and I found 1 70S .
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1713 Posts |
Hey c - if you still need the 1971S drop me an email and I'll send you one.
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
arthrene,I can't deal, trade or buy coins here yet ,not till the 16th.
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Valued Member
United States
140 Posts |
This got me to thinking...anyone wanna do a "box trade"?
I live in Atlanta area...anyone on the west coast wanna trade a bank box of Lincolns?
I don't know what the shipping cost would be, but if anyone is interested, we can check into it...
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1014 Posts |
Whats valuable about a 1971S, any varieties? I have only ever got a 1960 Large and Small Date from Jim which is greatttt... :DD
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Valued Member
United States
251 Posts |
I found a brown 71-S EF in a box last night, also found a brown 73-S F in that same box...If you want to trade CBall, the 71S is yours...
Edited by jbakic
01/13/2008 10:17 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Justabeginner
Its not so much a matter of valuable ,,its more like availability,, in some areas the S mint coins are pretty scarce and hard to find in change .
while as has been noted in other areas they are fairly common .
Metalman
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
I can't deal,buy or trade yet.Forum rules.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19961 Posts |
Tell you what, the Memorial cents are almost completely ignored in coin collecting. In the past couple of months, I have a new found appreciation for them. Yea, there were millions and billions of them made. However, most of them have simple vanished, in the trash, tossed into fountains, generally abused. Finding quality pieces is more difficult than you might think. At the last coin show I was actively seeking upgrades for some of my lesser examples. Guess how many I found to buy the show? ZERO! The few coins there were there were junk, and that amounted to about 20-30 coins at the whole show!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
792 Posts |
I live in NC and I keep every "S" mint cent I find.
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
I went through 25 rolls today.I did find a 68S and 71S .Also 3 wheats 1935,48 and 56D but none I needed.
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Posted 01/10/2008 09:33 am
