Lincoln "Professional Life" Release

That is a clear case of a stomach ache, Does anyone remember the story "Gordy" told on STAND BY ME, about the kid " Lard as* " who created the complete and ultimate Barfarama", My money is on him putting 4 of these away, no problem......

Who was Charlie Parker ? I ask as there is/was quite a well known nightclub in Glasgow called Charlie Parkers..gotta be the same guy.

Steve199 , I sometimes catch that Man vs Food show if I'm flipping through channels,i didnt figure it would be something id watch but its oddly compelling.
I have to admit I dont much care about anyone eating 16 chilli dogs but it takes the viewer to some pretty interesting places.

The fixation with binge eating and Habenaros is repetitive though.

I spoke with Kay Smith today. She is with the Bicentennial Commission in Illinois. Ms Smith informed me that there will be a program / brochure available at the release, but there will be no rubber stamping available, like there was at the Indiana release.

She said the Mint made that request.

Also, she told me that the Mint contacted the Post Office and asked them not to post mark any rolls of coins brought to them. They gave the reason of trying to remove the "commerciality" from the event.

Sounds to me like they don't want anyone but themselves making a profit off of these Lincoln Cents. With no big demand for stamped dated rolls, the mint thinks they can sell more of their own "special mint wrapped" roll sets.

Needless to say, I was upset to hear this news.

All in all, a very nice lady and an informative conversation.

For those attending, I'll see ya there.

Seems to me if your spending so much money on a trip to get these rolls at face you might as well just buy them at a premium and it would cost less than your trip!

I look forward to seeing those photo's biokemist6

It was a really long day so I am just going to give a synopsis for now and I will have a detailed report tomorrow I estimate that at least 3,000 were present and the limit was six rolls per person. The available coins were Philly minted coins in the standard N.F. String & Son wrappers. I managed to get 24 rolls and on my fifth time around, I was ten people away from the tables when they ran out It was pretty obvious that some large commercial ventures were working the lines- I was seeing people in line with pre-postaged Priority Mail boxes, laptop computers, and evelopes containing larges quantities of $1 bills. Springfield police were diligent about people not conducting transactions on the Capitol grounds and I saw a few people escorted out Trading was allowable but any cash transaction could get you kicked out even though I saw no less than ten such transactions take place, there was just not enough park and police officers to monitor the whole area

It turns out the the Post Office was doing a special cancellation but not onsite, the closest PO was a couple blocks from the Capitol. The lines for that were a complete debacle and I was not able to obtain any of the special cancellations. However, the postal clerks did make available the standard round red business stamp so I was able to get all of my rolls with that stamp.

lol It look's like old abe is flipping of the white house in that picture and e pluribus unum looks to be doubled die !

I agree with NDS, this time I won't pay a premium. I learned my lesson last time!
BD