Motherload for Lincoln Memorial collectors

jacktheknife

How would like to go through these one by one looking for the few superb gems!
Might take a while!!!

Jack


1979 Motherload

windwhispersintrees

The original owner bought them as a "copper investment"?
Sheesh.

ultradmpldollars

Are higher grade gems tougher to find in this date?

Smitty79

I'd love to go through them.....but I have a rather biased opinion of that year.

coppercoins

Well, that'll drop the bid price on them for sure. That's probably more than half of all the BU rolls still known for the date. As for die variety hunters that date is a very ho-hum date because so far there has never been a doubled die reported on a 1979P cent. Most people skip them when buying rolls.

Closest I can come to that is 3 each 5,000 count mint sewn bags of 1973P and 1981P (total 6 bags). Neither of those dates are known for die varieties either, but at face I couldn't refuse.

BobaFett72

...and the best part is!

"Memorial Cents will be the next Wheat Cents - slowly removed from circulation."

LincolnsRule

<< <i>How would like to go through these one by one looking for the few superb gems!
Might take a while!!! >>



I'd like to do it! I think you could open 1 roll though and decide on the probabity of finding superb gems. All the other rolls would be the same. It's one of the easiest pre 1982 dates in ms67, but if they ended up being really nice rolls, like an ms67 in every 10 or something... You could still do some serious damage to the pops and probably pull off a handful of ms68's!

LincolnsRule

If that was priced at more like $1.50 a roll... I would likely have already hit BIN....

Edited... wait.. my math is wrong... it is only $1.50 a roll.... I have to think about this....

LincolnCentMan

Yah, but for pick up only.... no mail. Geez, that's a LOT of gas!

David

LincolnsRule

Yeah, just realized you have to pick them up. You can stuff 144 rolls pretty well in a $8.10 flat rate box. Would take 7 boxes, only $60 or so dollars shipping. I have to talk to my roll collector friend... maybe he has a friend near PA...

Smitty79

<< <i>If that was priced at more like $1.50 a roll... I would likely have already hit BIN....

Edited... wait.. my math is wrong... it is only $1.50 a roll.... I have to think about this.... >>



If you buy them, I'll buy a roll or two off of you.

JRocco

Of all the years to hoard. C.D. is right, those are not too high on my list to search thru.

fivecents

Man...thats a lot of Lincoln cents.

seanq

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<< <i>If that was priced at more like $1.50 a roll... I would likely have already hit BIN....

Edited... wait.. my math is wrong... it is only $1.50 a roll.... I have to think about this.... >>



If you buy them, I'll buy a roll or two off of you. >>



One thing to be concerned about - you don't know how or where those rolls were stored for the last 26 years. The likelihood of finding a bunch of 67s and 68s would go down quite a bit if they were stored improperly.

Having said that, if you feel good enough about them to bid, I'll go Smitty one better and commit to buy an entire brick off of you.


Sean Reynolds

ellewood

Jaime -

I live about an hour and a half south of York, PA. I would be more than happy to run up there for that 61-D you have up on eBay. Not sure what I would do with them once I got them though??? Arrange to have them shipped to you????

If there are 90,000 pennies and he's asking $2699.99, isn't that only 3 cents per penny and $1.49/roll??? Seems like a steal to me! Come on Jaime...you know you are itching to dig into that stash!!!

pharmer

Trouble is, Jaime, even if you find a lot of 67's, the market price will go down with a big bump in the supply, and it's already low IMO. Last 4 on Heritage went for $253, 51, 115, and 52. Now, if they were selling at the pcgs price guide figure...It's tough on the 67 prices whenever a 68 is made, as on this date.

Smitty79

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<< <i>If that was priced at more like $1.50 a roll... I would likely have already hit BIN....

Edited... wait.. my math is wrong... it is only $1.50 a roll.... I have to think about this.... >>



If you buy them, I'll buy a roll or two off of you. >>



One thing to be concerned about - you don't know how or where those rolls were stored for the last 26 years. The likelihood of finding a bunch of 67s and 68s would go down quite a bit if they were stored improperly.

Having said that, if you feel good enough about them to bid, I'll go Smitty one better and commit to buy an entire brick off of you.


Sean Reynolds >>



Actually, I wouldn't mind buying an entire brick either, but shipping would probably be a bear. Besides that, I only wanted them cause they're my birth year and would only need 2 maybe 3 rolls. I'd open up one or two rolls and keep the rest intact.

Murphy

<<<One thing to be concerned about - you don't know how or where those rolls were stored for the last 26 years. The likelihood of finding a bunch of 67s and 68s would go down quite a bit if they were stored improperly.>>>

Hehe yeah, don't buy them, you don't know where they've been!