Cent Rolls, Both Wheat And Memorial

Since some of the yearss will be very difficult to acquire, I suggest keeping every condition.

You can edit your original post if you like. (looks like a note pad with pencil) I have the same problem with the autocorrect.

I think I fixed it, thank you very much

The price in the catalog can be extremely misleading. For instance a nice gemmy roll of 1960-D sm date cents is actually worth less than the XF price quoted in the catalogs. Most of the price listed is actually the cost of a dealer packaging and handling coins and the coins have very little real value.

This might sound mean but it's the real world. All of the wheat cents after 1941 are common in Bu rolls. Most of the memorial cents are even more ommon but availability of these is quite spotty. For instance the '69-P or '71-D roll is much less available than the wheat rolls but there's almost no demand for the later rolls so the price is very low.

If you're having fun then, by all means, keep doing it but don't put a lot of money into it without knowing you probably can't get that money back. It's a lot of fun assembling sets of the circulating coinage and some of it really isn't common at all in nice shape. I collect many of the circulating coins myself and it is a blast. I even save a few extra in case they ever get valuable. But there are countless millions of things like 1957-D cents in XF and better and there will likely never be a shortage or any reason people will want to pay more than a handling charge to get them. Dealers won't pay this handling charge so you'll have to retail them yourself and this is a tough business to make money.

We aren't really doing it for resell, just for the fun/challenge. We are working on 3 7070's an 8100, 8113 and 8166 currently.

Thank you for the thumbs up. I really want one of those collections that when I'm dead will show my love for this hobby. Now just need some children to leave them too. :-)