I Sold Some 1959 Lincoln Memorial Cent / LMC S At Our Garage Sale.

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StJoeBlues Pillar of the Community United States 573 Posts	Posted 05/29/2010 6:36 pm There have been a few threads recently about the crazy stuff people buy. This is another one. I've been separating out 1959 P&D LMCs for a while. I figured since they are the first year of the Memorial, there might be an interest in them. Well my wife had a garage sale today and I put out a couple rolls of mixed wheaties (no, they were not labeled "UNSEARCHED" "FROM HIDDEN STASH" or any of the other catch phrases) for $5.00 each and one roll of mixed 1959 P&Ds for $2.50. I sold one roll of 1959 LMCs for $2.50! I gave full disclosure, explaining to the guy that they weren't special other than they are the first year of the Memorial reverse. He said "I have over a million baseball cards and want to start collecting coins." Matt Report this Post to the Staff

vermontensium Moderator United States 16677 Posts	Posted 05/29/2010 6:50 pm I had some mercs on my table at our yard sale once and turned my back for 1 minute, they were gone. Fortunately, they were commons. Won't do that again. swcoin.ecrater.com Report this Post to the Staff
slash112 Valued Member United States 368 Posts	Posted 05/30/2010 12:48 am im putting together a roll of each date of the LMC its easy and fun, no uncommon dates, I'm going in 10 year intervals when I finish I think I am gonna start hording copper I have the 59 and the 60's about complete with every MM and date and am moving onto the 70's should go much faster now but yeah I hold onto the 59's for some reason and all the S mints from the late 60's and early 70's and put them in separate labeled rolls I started this hobby not to long ago and can't stop thinking of more dumb things to do with coins to make the easier dates harder to find and make it more worth my time to look through bank rolls for the things I REALLY want Report this Post to the Staff
925dealer Valued Member United States 258 Posts	Posted 05/30/2010 09:01 am What I have found to be rather fascinating is the rarity of the 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963 dates amongst pennies currently in circulation. I have always seperated out the 1959 and it takes quite a few bank boxes (of 2500 coins each) to come up with a roll of those. On average I may find 3 to 5 per box. It takes even more searched boxes to create a roll of all of the circulating S mintmarks from 1968 - 1974. Neither of these is a surprise to me. What did come as a surprise was I had someone ask me to build rolls of the above mentioned years and thought it would be easy enough to do. After going through 5000+ pennies (over 2 bank boxes) I could not make a single roll of all of the above dates combined (not including S mintmarks)! I was not expecting to get a bucketfull but I was expecting to have better than a couple of rolls. Therefore $2.50 was "cheap" simply based on how many pennies you would have to go through to build a single roll of them. The really sad thing is you can buy 1959 pennies in BU condition on ebay all day long for just a little more including shipping. Sincerely, John Leckrone Edited by 925dealer 05/30/2010 09:04 am Report this Post to the Staff
eaglefoot Pillar of the Community United States 6326 Posts	Posted 06/01/2010 08:40 am I thought about doing the same thing......and/or some common Wheats, at our recent garage sale.....but I didn't have enough "bad conditioned" Wheats that I wanted to part with !....and I didn't want to advertise to the neighborhood that I was a "coin collector". Edited by eaglefoot 06/01/2010 08:43 am Report this Post to the Staff
BadThad Bedrock of the Community United States 19930 Posts	Posted 06/01/2010 09:40 am Quote: What I have found to be rather fascinating is the rarity of the 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963 dates amongst pennies currently in circulation. I 100% agree.....these are RARE in boxes. In fact, I find more wheats that I do of those years! Lincoln Cent Lover! VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/ Report this Post to the Staff
slash112 Valued Member United States 368 Posts	Posted 06/04/2010 01:26 am I disagree about the finding of more of the early 60's then wheaties take 5 years of wheat cents and 5 years of early 60's you are gonna find more of the early 60's then you will of the 5 years of wheats i mean before you were comparing 3 mintmarks (for the most part) of coins minted from 1909-1958 to 10 different varieties I can look through my 10 dollars of wheats I have found and not make a roll of the a single date with one mintmark, yet I have just about completed one roll of each year and mintmark from the 60's and the 59 LMC compare apples to apples and it makes more sense the S mints from the late 60's early 70's on the other hand I find are about as scarce as the wheaties where I'm searching Report this Post to the Staff
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I Sold Some 1959 LMCs At Our Garage Sale.