Well.....I would like to go
my entire life without
ever participating in "
Ebay" or "
Craigslist" or anything else out there "online".......So, I guess I'll be stuck with 3 - Two roll Sets of each design for life !.....
"IF" (and that's a big IF !) I
did want to sell them.....it would have to be a coin shop....or an add in the paper or something........and I really doubt a
dealer would give me
$80.00 for a two roll set !
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These mint wrapped cents seem to have (to me) a much stronger strike and NO spots, whereas the rolls I got in Hodgenville seem weak and are covered with spots.
You opened the sacred
U.S. Mint wrapper !.....
And likely lost any extra premium that wrapper may have brought !For those who hold the "Mint wrapper" in high esteem anyway....
Though that is nice to know that you feel the quality is much better with these, you probably just got lucky with some early strikes. I hope that's true with mine when I get them...
..but I'll never see what they look like (individually) because I do not plan on "opening them". !
I'm hoping to find several decent enough quality
and quantity in circulation soon.....I hope they're not a substandard quality like what you've been finding !.....
To pontificate a bit overall...As the "P" mints in any denomination are
always rare around here....I don't expect to ever get a "P" Mint in good condition. Combine that with the lowest mintage since the 1950's with this Cent from Philly this year.....
I MAY NOT EVEN SEE ONE IN "BAD" CONDITION !And no banks in this town will get rolls of these AT ALL !.....so....
just where am I supposed to get rolls of each Mint if not from
THE Mint itself
....?.....build them from circulation ?......if they ever start coming around ?.....and the Philly Mint ?.......No.......the way I see it.....I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO ORDER THEM !....and will continue to.
But, that's just another reason why I wanted the two roll Sets.....and I also believe that there will be nice premium's on these Sets for many decades. Yeah.....it probably won't hold at $80.00 - $100.00 per two roll Set for all that long.....maybe a year or three, and eventually that "bubble" will pop and interest in them will wane......
but I don't think it will go down below issue price !.......EVER I HOPE !I guess I just feel that with the Landmark change in the Lincoln Cent....and this coins popularity seemingly timeless.....that to cull the best one from "pocket change" to put in an album or folder just wasn't/isn't going to cut it for me .....I
wanted the two roll Sets of each design "for my collection" !....
And I certainly don't feel "hurt" by the price in the long run AT ALL !
And I get the annual Sets each year regardless so.......(which I'm not going to crack for the
true Uncirculated Quality which is
different than the business strikes for circulation as we all know nowadays, to put into an album or folder so it can be "mixed" with lesser quality Lincolns.....dunno.....but don't wanna do that!)(my Sets will stay intact with that consideration)
But even if I did "crack em' out".....I STILL WANT MY P&D ROLLS OF THIS NEW LINCOLN. AND
SEVERAL ROLLS OF
EACH DESIGN TOO ! This, for me, will have nothing whatsoever to do with making albums or folders including these new '09 Cents. That may or may not be a completely seperate action for me, but just doesn't involve my attempts to collect "the rolls" of Mr. Lincoln's much celebrated/much anticipated newly designed coin.
Time will tell........ahhhh the art of the Crystal Ball prediction game........hmmmmm
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