Red Lincolns

Yeah, everybody wants their Wheaties (pre-'58) to be Red when and where they can afford it. Brown is sought maybe to keep uniformity in color.....but ideally, everyone seems to want the Reds.
Early LMC'c would fall in this area too, but all of the Modern Cents should be really cheap to have in Red, because their scarcity is a non-factor. Everybody and their Cousin can get Modern Lincolns in Red, and wouldn't pay a premium for this IMO.

I just got about 14 BU rolls of 2010 Lincolns today from the bank. I am assuming they are BU since every roll has a shiny 2010 at each end of the roll.
I don't want to open the rolls and then maybe ruin their condition. Maybe in 5 years, BU rolls of 2010 will be worth a nice penny.

OK, I guess I will open up the rolls carefully. Thanks for the help all.

1. Bank wrapped rolls with the same date in red BU at each end are assumed to have the same thing throughout as long as they remain bank rolls.

2. ANY bank wrapped BU roll is worth well over face value. I will pay $1.20 per roll delivered for 2010 cents from either mint. I will pay $1.90 per roll for the fourth design 2009 Lincoln Cent - delivered any time. You deliver, I send a check.

3. NO BU bank wrapped roll is guaranteed to be all one date. and ANY roll could have other dates inside. This is definitely NOT unique to 2009 or 2010.

4. All these foil, cloth, oil methods of keeping red coins red are just as likely to turn your coins brown as leaving them in the wrappers they came in and storing them in a cool, dry place. The difference is the amount of time spent to achieve the same goal.

5. There is no guarantee that any current date coin will be worth a lot more in the future. Enjoy what you have for what you've got now, and don't worry about the value of a common coin in ten years. Likely that the cost of the space to store the rolls will outweigh the value of the coins anyway.

6. The value of high grade cents is vastly affected by whether the coin is in a holder and how many coins of that grade have been released by the holder company before. If your coins are in flips, rolls, or tubes, you can completely forget the high grade values, because nobody would pay near that for them. Remember that the high grade coins are in $30 holders.

Indeed....there's no substitute for common sense. BU rolls are easy to store as long as you use your brain.

I've found some plastic coin tubes will accomodate sealed OBW rolls. I put them in those, tightly seal it lid with black tape and put the tubes into a heavy ziplock bag with a fresh, red cent and a desiccant pack. Than those bags go into tupperware containers. They should easily stay pristine for decades.

I'll bet vacuum packing would work well too.....I do it with my polished brass cartridge cases and they stay like new...never loose any luster.

Actually, they were all 2010-D.