I Have A Question But Not About Just One Specific Coin

God bless you in your diagnosis... I don't know about coins much but I heard Jovita Idar " In Cod We Trust" quarters and the Anna May Wong versions MIGHT be going up in value... due to the errors. Just speculation and some ebay sales analysis though.

ok, Not sure how to answer this post as a whole, but as for the coins part, I only save the zinc coins in Mint sets and also a Dansco album set. I heard that there may be some modern cent coins with errors that may hold increased value, but not too sure on that.

as for the second part - I hope that your test comes out negative for you. (I have a similar issue too - on the 9th next month I go in for a cancer screening again.)

Some of the zincolns are almost impossible in nice condition. The real standout is the '84-P. This coin rarely comes with nice flat attractive surfaces and when it does it will usually be scratched AND will have carbon spots. Nobody notices because almost nobody collects them. Some of the rolls from this era go fort a lot of money so eventually this should affect the price of singles.

if you are interested I would look at the mint sets coins because they are inexpensive and finding nice coins in them is much easier than other sources usually.

Any pre-'87 in nice condition is a keeper and many of the later dates are underappreciated.

Stay positive. It will help even if worse comes to worse. Best of luck.

Frog - I meant the comment before mine in this thread, from ephdeee

Both my in-laws beat it twelve years ago and my younger brother did last year. You got this!

Working on your grading skills will take time. Also a good coin magnifying glass is imperative. Good luck but it takes time to master this skill. After all my years in coin collecting I am still learning.I also have tried to collect higher ms grades on newer circulating Lincoln cents because higher grades on Lincoln cents are disappearing fast. Good luck in collecting.

As far as your concerns with cancer,been through that with my wife two times. She beat both it both times. My wife is still around to beat on me, ha. Cancer tests have always been a scare to people but we found out there are a lot of gray areas that show something there that in time turn out negative. I have talked with many lab technicians and found there are a lot of positive results that show negative in time. Take one and only one day at a time and I hope everything shows up bright for you . Please keep showing up on this board and we will always show support you in everything you do. Take care and enjoy life to the fullest. Thanks for being here.

I save almost all MS cents from 1959 forward if they are nice. The 65ish coins go into my roll set and I'm always hunting for the 67 and up grades - they can be VERY valuable if slabbed. Just scan the values for the top grades from PCGS:

https://www.pcgs.com/prices/detail/.../most-active

So, for those saying the old "they made billions, they are worth face", yes they did make billions but 99.9+% of them are garbage and MS-65 & below (including those in mint sets). Finding the high grade gem coins is much more difficult than most people realize. If it were so easy, I'd have an MS-69 set of memorial coins because I've been looking for decades - hundreds of thousands of coins including mint sets, rolls and loose.

Well said indeed.