Are You A Lincoln Cent Junkie ?

STEWARTBLAYNUMIS

Most of the High Quality Lincoln Cents just seem to evaporate into thin air.There were many high powered collections sold in 2005 such as the Mershon and Joshua and Ally Walsh collection.Those coins are off the market.And the prices just seem to go higher and higher
If you are a Lincoln cent junkie and would like to chime in please lets hear what makes you tick.I thought I was alone in my pursuits

Stewart

MORGANHUNTER2

Not really - but I have a 'few' of em- that I would like to get rid of.

I need an IHC in 78- why are there no IHC in 1878 available?

jacktheknife

YES!!!

I had a very trusted fellow numismatist call me the other night and encourage me to look at other coins (you know, "box of 20" type coins). I thought a bit about it in light of what is happening in the Lincoln market, but I just can't do it. I'm a diehard junkie.


Jack

HTubbs

Only if they are toned

Barndog

<< <i>I need an IHC in 78- why are there no IHC in 1878 available? >>



Depends on what you really want...

Not mine: EBAY

JRocco

Hi Stewart, I have been into Lincoln cents for many years. In my situation: wife-3 daughters-college-rent for the oldest-4 cars etc etc, I have not been into the high end Lincoln sets. I have been running after Lincoln varieties for years now and can probably say that I am looking at 4-5 thousand raw Lincoln varieties in my collection. I have the slab or 2 of higher graded pieces, like the 55 DDO, but my main push has been the lower cost hobby type stuff only due to the fact of wanting to stay married . I am sure that as my situation changes I will be trying to put aside the kind of coins you have in your collection, and if I get lucky there might even be a cooling off of prices when I do (though I doubt it).

Life takes funny little twists and I may be the high bidder one day when you put some of those monsters you have squirreled away in your safe cave on the market. I have the feeling that when you reveal some of your monsters to the open market- more people like me may come out of the woodwork to gobble them up.

RedneckHB

I like Lincolns.

1040taxman

If I had one series to collect it would definitely be the Lincolns.I can still remember the days when I would get 1913's through 1937's in my change.(along with a few buffalo nickels)Both sides of my family encouraged me to collect...never regretted it for a moment.

RBinTex

Yes but only for the varieties.

a039

Yes, I am a Lincoln funkie junkie! I ordered a $50 bag of wheats and had FUN going through it, is that sick or what? I must say that my recent acquisition was one of the hardest coins to find, a 1951 MS 66 Red. At the Long Beach show must have been dozens of 1954 MS 66 Red but not one 51 that I could find. Take care, SoCalMark

Shamika

<< <i>Most of the High Quality Lincoln Cents just seem to evaporate into thin air. >>


Thats the problem, the market gets hot and suddenly these great coins come out of hiding all at once. Since you don't have enough money to chase them all, you can only pick off a few and then before you know, they're all back in hiding for another 5-10 years (or whenever the market heats up again.

coinnut86

When I was filling albums, what I already had from a roll went into a giant pop bottle piggy bank, and it still sits. Everytime I get some in change they go in there. Someday when I have kids, we'll sit down on an acid rainy day and fill albums from them

I counted it last year sometime, and there was 28 bucks in it, since then it's 2 inches taller

Nysoto

I am a closet Lincoln cent collector with about 70 lbs worth of pre '82's in my closet. I have my Whitman album from 1964 that is mostly complete from circulation. Still have yet to spend more than a cent for one.

jacktheknife

one day when you put some of those monsters you have squirreled away in your safe cave on the market.

Yes Stewart, now is the time to sell. Sell Stewart sell. Just think about what you could do with all that money

C'mon Stewart, sell....

Jack

rabbitracks

YES, I sure feel like one some days. It's getting harder and harder to find Full red gems at shops around the country to purchase, so my fix is in withdrawl mode at present. Stewart hope your having better luck finding nice GEM's out your part of the world. Thanks for the post. Mike.



My Last nice piece ONLY AU 58. Tough getting decent grades!

PhillyJoe

I'm a 1964 Lincoln PR69 Ultra/Deep Cameo junkie.

There. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.

Joe

coinbuf

Absolutly yes!! Lincolns were the very first type of coin I collected. While I'll never have a 1st place set, I've put together a nice registry set that only needs a handfull more to complete. But as you and Shamika have pointed out finding the right coin can and often does take a long time. So I stay busy with Morgans, my second most favorite series, while I wait.

Chris

earlwbollinger

I like Lincolns.
I'd love to collect a lot more, but lack of money always gets in the way.
So I get one or two from time to time.

LincolnsRule

Didn't we have this exact same thread a few years ago, with the exact same posts by JTK, HTubbs, RBinTex?

Anyway, yep I'm one. I've owned probably about 3-6 of most early dates (never a 14-s though) and looked through probably 10,000 rolls of Memorials, a few hundred rolls of late date wheats.

Don't sell Stewart!! You need to wait until I can afford such coins!

LeeG

I'm considering starting a Lincoln Wheat Set in MS65 BN/RB.

tupa1234

LOVE Lincoln cents!!!!

carl

I've been a Lincoln Cent collector for well on to 60 years and all I can say is they are just getting to scarce to find anymore. Therefore, I am planning on starting to make my own. Anyone want to help? We can start producing all the rare ones right away. Nothing like flooding the market with a few million 55DD's.

shylock

I'm not a Lincoln cent junkie but if I could afford them I would be.

My introduction to coin collecting was holding a 1917 Lincoln in my hand that looked like it was minted yesterday.
My imagination ran wild about who preserved this coin, and why. As did my perspective of what was happening
in this country when the first person who owned this coin looked at it, and what has changed since then, during
this coin's many years of preservation.

I can relate to Lincoln cents like many collectors with the resources to collect them do. They encompass almost
the entire 20th century and are the most unique US coin in that respect.

Plus, Lincoln's a US icon and they're copper

Longshot

Yes, I like to collect lincoln cents. Probably about 500 in cigar boxes. You can still find them in pocket change (along with older nickels) but it is getting progressively harder. Have to make friends with cashiers nowadays or get them in bankrolls...
Only have a couple of Unc. wheatbacks though (not in cigar boxes ).

drwstr123

Fer sure! To show how long it's been, this is something I pcked up in circulation:


Started in the early 50's. Picked up all but the SVDB in circulation. Got out for many years but started back. Just can't stay clean.

RW

I primarily collect Lincolns. I'm working on a red set that I should have complete around 2064. I like looking through OBW rolls for varieties.

Coppernicus

YES!! I have a PCGS Registry Set and I'm building a AU/UNC chocolate brown set in the Dansco 7103. Wheats only - I have no interest in the Memorials.

The theme of the Dansco set is color consistency. Chocolate brown with some remaining underlying luster. Beautiful!!!

Mike

coppercoins

**raises hand**

GUILTY.

So I don't have large sums of cash for the biggies and top grades, but I do have enough to break the axles in any but the most sturdy of vehicles. I am sure I have more than any one of the local banks have on-hand at any given moment...enough that it takes two off-site storage areas.

WaterSport

It is the preferred drug of coin collecting. In fact, like many here, I have been hooked for a number of years.

WS

Mercfan

Well, I searched thousands of Lincolns as a kid during the early sixties; bought a nice nearly complete collection about ten years later; picked up a nice fully red upgrade here and there over the next ten years; couldn't resist buying some nice BU wheat rolls during the ten years after that; and bought the Syracuse Hoard of 257,000+ wheats two weeks ago.

Come to think of it, I might be a Lincoln cent junkie--and the evidence suggests that the problem is getting worse! (But oh, how lovely are the dozen or so red and toned uncirculated 1918s and 1919s I found among a tray of loose coins from the Hoard the day before yesterday! How crisp the strikes! How sublime the fields! How pristine the rims!)

MikeJessie1

Oh ohh ohhhh Mr. Cotter! Hey stewart. Have always collected lincoln cents until last year. I think the regestry and anticiation of the 2009 redesign is solidly behind the prices skyrocketing. Some of my coins no longer fall into the collection catagory, but are now on a rocket ship to the moon of investments. Of course we all pale in compareson to your masterful skills, (maybe except Charles) but you are indeed correct. Supply is tight and prices are up. As for why I collect Lincoln cents. COLOR. hold it in your hand. It looks so warm and beautiful, not cold like silver. And have you seen the price of Gold? I started collecting as a kid, like most everyone else, so that was out of the question. But I think mostly my obession probley came from my juvenile days of going thru my winnings after cleaning out the other kids on the street in a game we called pitching pennys.

DMWJR

I'm thinking about getting into high grade mint state Lincolns. Who should I contact to get into this market?

coinkat

no

eyoung429

Nah....but it does get tiring moving 300 to 500 lbs when I want to clean out the closet and a few under the bed........

But I consider myself close to 1/3 completion from 1938 to 1959 for all the varieties.