2009 Philadelphia Mint Formative Years Cent Error Hunting- Help Needed!

Alotta questions! I'll give it a shot. "The finger" is the most widely recognized DDR on the 2009P LP2 Formative years. If you look at http://www.coppercoins.com under that parameter, you will see listed ovever 100 varieties. The most popular of course being the "skeleton finger", looks like one in between the thumb and forefinger by the book. Quite a few similar ones too. I must diverge here to ask a pertinent question. What is your reason for searching for these? To flip or collect? Why I ask is the error "market" is very hyped right now with the "get rich schemes"...only ones getting rich are the writers BTW! Yea I know, one in three hundred THOUSAND may find a one of 200,000 possible coins and make six figures. The 2009 is by far NOT but a one to two figure coin, even in high grades. Listed "values" are arbitrary. Real world is what sells, period. So ask yourself, are you willing to risk investment of $5-10 per 50 to sell a glean of 5% for $2 each? That's real world. Now on ewwboy, the hype reigns, suckers abound and smucks are out in force to reel 'em in. Will that BIE die break error coin sold today for $15 be worth the same even in ten years? Doubtful. Never has been that way over the years, why I say today is big hype, have to be reasonable, logical what you do. (It took me 2 1/2 months to sell TWO BU/MS 1957 LWCs w/ diebreaks, for $1.49, shipped)

Personally, I found a lot of 2009's in 2013/14 but began noticeably seeing less and less, now, very few and quite nasty. It seems CRHing has cleaned the till on those. Which is why the sales of BU rolls is high now. As to who wraps the rolls, the million dollar question. Are the Fed Distributor wrapped, or individual bank wrapped from bags or worse yet, individually wrapped from searched bags? You can only ask where they came from hoping the seller is honest. The rest is your gut, go with it. I myself wouldn't pay more than $5 a roll, that's 500% markup on a cent! 10 times what a roll value is. Then say you get 6 lesser "finger" varieties, all the same, I can't even sell a verified Wheat cent RPM on a BU/MS coin for $1.29, shipped! Thinkaboudddit!

That was a great question. I am glad you asked as I have recently addressed this personally and toyed around with the idea of testing the margins. Its important to keep my Numismatic needs met because collecting coins (insert proper term here) keeps me health and sane. Okay, enough with my PSA.

I love Abraham Lincoln, he was a great man and President. As someone who grew up when George Washington and Lincoln birthdays were on seperate days of the week, that meant 2 days off of school, not one as it is now. I like the Bi-Centennial editions. These were the first coins Ive ever purchased, two sealed rolls of the Formative Years, one from Philidelphia, one from Denver and MS65 RB or better. They cost me about twenty dollars online. Now I just stick with unopened Mint Rolls like you mentioned.

Keep looking because they are out here, and you should not have an issue finding them for ten dollars a roll. Ive found them cheap and just buy all ten rolls at a time. Dont forget, or in my case I had no idea, the but 2010 Lincoln Shields are a part as well. Even though he is gone, his values shall still be our defence. I am going to start using the forums again as I've learned alot thanks to Crazybo0 taking the time to help educate me. He has good "stuff" to post in the error and variety department.

Thanks you guys,

Mike H.

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I got a good deal on LP-2 rolls, I have a dozen rolls coming my way. It should be fun searching through them. I'll be sure to post any finds here. Twelve rolls should keep me busy for a while! It might have been easier/cheaper to just buy a few of the LP-2 errors, where is the fun and sense of adventure in that? Any duplicates may be offered to trade here, but as I said, I'm a collector, not a reseller.