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I'm not sure if this is right place but here we go. I was really curious if there are any pennies from 80s,90s and early 00s that if they are in really REALLY nice condition if they are worth keeping. I guess I'm not sure why I'm asking because even really nice ones I can't get graded. Maybe one of these years. Any input would be greatly appreciated. PS: today is my 37th birthday and in 2 days I get go find out if I have cancer.... oh and I wont be doing anything cuz every single dollar I have goes into that appointment....happy birthday to me  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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We were asking the same question back in the late 1950s when cent mintages were rising rapidly. Turns out most all of them are just worth face today more than 60 years later.
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Happy Birthday!
Unless you find a remarkable error, none of the pennies from that time period are ever going to be worth anything above face value. Most if not all of them have mintages in the many billions.
That said, I enjoy keeping one nice BU example of each in my Whitman folders.
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God bless you in your diagnosis... I don't know about coins much but I heard Jovita Idar " In Cod We Trust" quarters and the Anna May Wong versions MIGHT be going up in value... due to the errors. Just speculation and some ebay sales analysis though. |
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This post before mine is a serious problem in our hobby. I wish there wasn't so much misinformation out there.
You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Edited by NumismaticsFTW
12/29/2024 2:44 pm
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ok, Not sure how to answer this post as a whole, but as for the coins part, I only save the zinc coins in Mint sets and also a Dansco album set. I heard that there may be some modern cent coins with errors that may hold increased value, but not too sure on that.
as for the second part - I hope that your test comes out negative for you. (I have a similar issue too - on the 9th next month I go in for a cancer screening again.)
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@NumismaticsFTW - can't find your earlier post on this thread.  Edited by Coinfrog
12/29/2024 3:38 pm
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Some of the zincolns are almost impossible in nice condition. The real standout is the '84-P. This coin rarely comes with nice flat attractive surfaces and when it does it will usually be scratched AND will have carbon spots. Nobody notices because almost nobody collects them. Some of the rolls from this era go fort a lot of money so eventually this should affect the price of singles.
if you are interested I would look at the mint sets coins because they are inexpensive and finding nice coins in them is much easier than other sources usually.
Any pre-'87 in nice condition is a keeper and many of the later dates are underappreciated.
Stay positive. It will help even if worse comes to worse. Best of luck.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Thank you all.
I've been trying to find out what's worth keeping and what's not... guess I shouldn't have put specific time frames because I'm curious about all that are worth saving. My mind isn't in it but I'm trying to distract myself so I've been going through all the pennies I have and putting ones I know are spenders in a box until they are all gone through then cash them in.
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Frog - I meant the comment before mine in this thread, from ephdeee
You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A belated happy birthday, young lady. Hopefully you can pull through this and come out stronger. Cancer takes many forms. My mom fought lymphoma twice, and beat it both times. She did lose all her hair due to chemo, but head scarves became routine. She lived to be 94. Best of luck to you. Keep us informed.
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PS: today is my 37th birthday and in 2 days I get go find out if I have cancer.... oh and I wont be doing anything cuz every single dollar I have goes into that appointment....happy birthday to me Both my in-laws beat it twelve years ago and my younger brother did last year. You got this! 
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First and foremost, I hope that the medical results come back negative.....and a very happy belated birthday! As for your question, I'm going to assume you are meaning ones which would grade in the upper mint state range. With modern coinage finally becoming noticed, auction prices for those in MS68 plus are worth considerably more than average MS65/66. The only concern would be your own grading skills, how accurate you'd consider them, before taking the gamble to have them assigned by a third party grader. I'm leaning towards your understanding that anything getting graded under MS67 would exceed the value based on the associated fees to grade them. With this in mind, my suggestion is to put them in an album as you find them.
ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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Working on your grading skills will take time. Also a good coin magnifying glass is imperative. Good luck but it takes time to master this skill. After all my years in coin collecting I am still learning.I also have tried to collect higher ms grades on newer circulating Lincoln cents because higher grades on Lincoln cents are disappearing fast. Good luck in collecting. As far as your concerns with cancer,been through that with my wife two times. She beat both it both times. My wife is still around to beat on me, ha. Cancer tests have always been a scare to people but we found out there are a lot of gray areas that show something there that in time turn out negative. I have talked with many lab technicians and found there are a lot of positive results that show negative in time. Take one and only one day at a time and I hope everything shows up bright for you . Please keep showing up on this board and we will always show support you in everything you do. Take care and enjoy life to the fullest. Thanks for being here.    |
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In my opinion, most modern business struck coins will not really have any value with the exceptions of varieties and errors, low mintage years, or very high condition - MS 65 and above. There is one exception with the very high condition and that is with production issues in some years where MS 65 or better coins is extremely rare to nonexistent. Good examples of really low mintages are the 2009 and 2024 nickels. Even the 2024 dime had a lower mintage compared to previous years but not as extreme as the nickel.
Still in keeping with my father's tradition of keeping 5 coins from each year, I continue to do so. I search coins always looking for better examples.
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I save almost all MS cents from 1959 forward if they are nice. The 65ish coins go into my roll set and I'm always hunting for the 67 and up grades - they can be VERY valuable if slabbed. Just scan the values for the top grades from PCGS: https://www.pcgs.com/prices/detail/.../most-activeSo, for those saying the old "they made billions, they are worth face", yes they did make billions but 99.9+% of them are garbage and MS-65 & below (including those in mint sets). Finding the high grade gem coins is much more difficult than most people realize. If it were so easy, I'd have an MS-69 set of memorial coins because I've been looking for decades - hundreds of thousands of coins including mint sets, rolls and loose. |
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