Cool Lincoln Roll Finds (From Bank Rolls) - Post Yours!

Alright, alright, here are the pics. It's a pain to photograph these minor ones with my setup!

This is the one I found first in the tube - it's 1DR-002.


This is 1DO-001:


That DDO happens to be paired with a DDR - 1DR-001 (similar but not identical to the one above):


I also found a nicer-than-average obverse trail die (1DEO-001T):


And several column bar doubles (I just stick these in a tube; they're common enough that it's not worth my time to try to attribute them):

if you figure the 99's are MS thats $200 each!

Seems like KY has several of the 1999 Wide AMs. Congrats <<:

Still Lookin

An extremely rare 2001 variety...

When people see my setup they either say I'm crazy or genius - never in between.

I actually just received my Celestron 44302-A on Friday, but it has something wrong with it. The couple times it did work was amazing - now to figure out a way to mechanize a conveyor belt to sort the cents under a microscope.

@joe turbo.

what I do is go through each coin like so:

roll in hand, stack the zincs in piles of 10, keep the cherry picked dates, 99, 92, CAms WAMS, and all overdated, RPMS that are listed in the books, by now I have these memorized so I dont waste time.

so I sort the zincs in stacks of 10 until I reach 50. then roll the zincs up and stack in pile going back to bank.

in between all that, I sort all copper thats pre82. toss the wheats aside, also any pre 70 BU. 70-82 Bu's I dont fancy much, so they go in with the coppers. the only real sorting I do is between the earlier coppers that could have RPMS, OMM, or the 99 WAM, or 92 CAM. other than that I dont waste time sorting every year. it goes much faster this way. so at the end of my box, which takes only 1-2 hours at the MOST, I have sorted my copper to sell, and sort my wheats by year. I usually dont find many errors. but once you have all the errors and varieties memorized, its pretty fast.

so just put all the years that could have errors or varieties in a pile, ie. 63-d, 64, 70-s, 60-d, 61-d, 99, 98, 00, 92, 92-d, 95, 95-d, 97, 94, then check those at the very end, so your not pausing in the middle of stacking the zincs to be rolled up. at least for me, putting these in piles and waiting until I've gone through the whole box saves me time and saves my eyes the strain.

i have found that when ever you find a year that COULD have an error or variety, if you pull out the book, compare and check it, could take 5 min. in the same 5 in I could have sorted through 3 rolls and tossed the same coins in a pile for later. kinda leaves you something exciting to do after your done searching the box, in case you found nothing...

I know I've posted my process several times....in a nutshell:

1) Pour out a roll.
2) Remove obvious zinc culls that don't have my dates of interest.
3) Grab all the copper and if it's not a date of interest, toss in into the copper pail.
4) Separate BU's and dates of interest, toss the junk.

**** I've used ZERO MAGNIFICATION at this point. I can do this in 30 seconds. Generally, I do not search for minor die varieties unless they happen to be on one of the BU's I pulled out. I go for volume of coins checked versus every single variety.****

5) Closely examine what's left for major or new (if obvious) die varieties under 8x power.
6) Cherrypick the remaining BU coins for quality and toss the AU or junky ones.

We only need to memorize the major varieties and understand the characterists. If you learn how to spot a variety, you don't need to know them all, there's just too many out there. It's much better to understand what they look in general and how they compare to the dumb stuff like Machine Doubling and damage. This goes for error searching as well.

Other than that, snag all the nice BU cents you can....keep only the cream of the crop or you'll get swamped. I have a simply amazing BU roll collection from 1959 up from searching and buying BU rolls and searching those for gems.

GOOD LUCK