Cent Varieties To Look For When Coin Roll Hunting.

The way I teach people to look is to learn what a normal coin is supposed to look like for any given date, then pull anything that doesn't look normal. Far and away, your value in memorial cents is going to be in doubled dies and repunched mintmarks. Spend some time learning what those are and what they look like and just dig in.

Using specific "lists" of what to look for are much harder to follow, learn, and memorize than learning the "normal" appearance of a coin and pulling the "different" stuff. This premise works in the banking world where instead of teaching tellers what to look for in counterfeit currency, they simply have the tellers handle a LOT of real currency so they will know the fakes when they run across them because they don't feel right.

Reference books are amazing for this purpose. Coppercoins himself wrote one, Looking Through Lincoln Cents, which lists some fantastic varieties. The Cherrypicker's Guide as well as Strike it Rich with Pocket Change would be a good start.