2008 Lincoln Cents

Wait...that's my grand scheme! There's only so many billions to go between a few collectors...no fair!

Lincolncollector-
We're just being a bunch of jokers here.
Personally, I wouldn't mind a nice BU and proof set of the last design year, but I wouldn't stockpile them myself. A better bet might be the 1909 VDB coins. Supplies are getting short because I hear someone is buying those en masse for a big, overmarketed 1909/2009 set.

Get a couple of rolls of the P and D mint, just so you can sleep at night. You never know, maybe a hugely sought-after error will be discovered a couple of years from now and you have the two rolls that has the error!

I don't think so. Some Advice I was given when I started collecting a number of years ago. If your looking for an investment look big, silver, look for rarity. Lincolns would be an extremely long term investment. Myself I might buy a roll or two but not as an investment. If your looking for an investment try looking into this.

Look for a coin that you can afford to hold onto for a little while. Pick a price. Say $40 now look at all the coins in that type in the EF-MS63 (in alot of types this will require a lot more than $40) Then Look at the mintages say there are 8 years were your guide says that that coin should be worth $40. (Guide doesn't really matter because your really just looking cost to rarity comparison) Now pick the one with the lowest mintage and go to a shop or show and try and get for the best price possible. Essentially what you are trying to do is get the rarest coin possible for the least amount of money. I like the idea also forementioned by someone else of the 1909 VDB. It is I think a good investment because that year is the only year to have VDB. So if you are looking at it from strictly an investment stand point I would stay away from the really recent pennies. You won't see any appreciation on those for years.

Hello lincolncollector,

What the others said with past examples.

Bicentennial quarters and halves. Unless in original rolls spend them. Even in original rolls you'd be lucky to get $15 from a dealer.

Ike dollars. Same scenario.
Susan B Anthony dollars same thing.

Common thing here is that there will most likely be a ton of people hoarding them. May keep a roll or two myself.

I wouldn't bet the farm on it but the nice thing is that you can set 20 rolls aside for $10. NOT a huge outlay of cash for sure.

I think the sets referred to would only be the 1909 and 2009, not everything in between. I can't imagine the cost to put together a marketable number of complete sets in good quality. I can't imagine who could afford to buy them either. An abbreviated set of first year and 100 years later (and possibly LAST year for the Lincoln Cent) would be cool to own!

The 2008 cents will be the most heavily hoarded coins in the world since the 1964 cents. Everyone knows this will probably be the last year of the design of both sides and the cent will likely be discontinued after '09 so they will be hoarded.

Set a few dimes aside if you want to take a flyer. Don't hold them forever though; if they don't go up after four years then spend most of them. Try some half dollars or quarters. Quarters sure won't be scarce but the demand will be high.

The future value of a collectible has very little to do with mintage and everything to do with how many are saved.

Like the '31-S which is fairly common because of massive hoarding some coins are scarce despite huge mintages. Perhaps the easiest example to see is the 1883 nickel. The low mintage no-cents example is worth about $8 in XF condition and $24 in unc. The with-cents version with more than three times the mintage wasn't widely saved and is worth more than ten times as much in XF and seven times in unc.

Most of the moderns have been exceedingly lightly saved. In most cases it's a not only a tiny fraction of the savings on something like the '14-D cent but it's far lower in absolute terms as well. Most modern varieties are rare in uncirculated condition!! NONE of the other 20th century varieties are rare in unc. Even the low mintage 1916 overdate nickel probably isn't really rare because people set aside a few rolls of these and some overdates were found. Who set aside rolls of '72-D quarters so that the DDR could be found? Like most of the modern varieties this one is rare with only two specimens reported.

People also tend to assume that all the moderns can easily be located in nice attractive condition. Ha! Think again. Try finding a nice attractive '79-D Lincoln. It's not a rare coin and people set aside many hundreds of bags and thousands of rolls. There were two and a half million mint sets. But try finding one of these that doesn't look like it went through a meat grinder. Try finding an '84-D with good surfaces. And if these are too easy then just try finding a '68 cent without carbon spots!!

Some of these coins will prove tougher than the much vaunted "key dates" in nice condition. Generally they're not that tough in MS-64 and MS-65 but many get a lot tougher in higher grades.