Question for penny roll searchers... How often do you see 1974 S cents?

ambro51 · September 16, 2015 1:33AM

Or the 73S. Just wondering.

SaorAlba · September 16, 2015 2:35AM

The '73-S cent is the one I am least likely to find. The '74-S are about as common as the rest in that seven year series.

DCW · September 16, 2015 2:37AM

Id say here in NJ, I find maybe 1 or 2 a box

Baley · September 16, 2015 2:41AM

It's funny that you ask this, for a a kid in 1977 or so, CoinAge magazine had some blurb about the 'sleeper' 1973-S cent and it's potential for future price appreciation

Sooo, for the next couple of years, in addition to wheat cents, I saved 1973-S cents from circulation, accumulating a couple rolls of EF-AU coins. Still have them somewhere...

Musky1011 · September 16, 2015 4:08AM

I saved some i received from the bank..au- ms

RichieURich · September 16, 2015 5:26AM

In the Eastern part of the U. S., we see 1974-S cents in circulation much more often than 1968-S thru 1973-S cents. I believe the reason is that the Mint distributed many of the 1974-S cents intermixed in with other cent bags. The Mint's explanation was that they wished to discourage hoarding of the 1974-S cents.

seanq · September 16, 2015 5:57AM

You didn't necessarily ask, but I will add that in my experience errors (primarily clips and off-centers) on the late date SF mint cents are hardest to find on 1973-S and 1974-S, with the former slightly scarcer than the latter. The rest of the run in descending order of rarity: 1972-S, 1969-S, 1968-S, 1971-S and 1970-S. I know of more double and triple clips on 1970-S and 1971-S cents than on any other dates in the entire run of copper Lincolns.

Sean Reynolds

ambro51 · September 16, 2015 6:30AM

Fascinating about the errors.

winky · September 16, 2015 10:01AM

<< Fascinating about the errors. >>

Love the errors. My thing.

tightbudget · September 16, 2015 10:40AM

I haven't roll searched in a while but from my experience, the 1974-S and the 1972-S were probably the most common with the 69, 70, and 71 showing up at about the frequency after those. 1968-S and 1973-S were definitely the scarcest.

All and all, I did save all the S-mint Lincolns I could find. They were scarcer than the Wheaties and who knows, maybe one day they will command a small premium.

SaorAlba · September 16, 2015 11:38AM

<< I haven't roll searched in a while but from my experience, the 1974-S and the 1972-S were probably the most common with the 69, 70, and 71 showing up at about the frequency after those. 1968-S and 1973-S were definitely the scarcest.

All and all, I did save all the S-mint Lincolns I could find. They were scarcer than the Wheaties and who knows, maybe one day they will command a small premium. >>

I still actively search, probably $100-$200 a week in cents. I usually turn up far less S mints than wheats. Todays search of $55 in CWR cents produced 16 wheats including a 50-S and 7 memorial S mints.

koynekwest · September 16, 2015 11:44AM

<< In the Eastern part of the U. S., we see 1974-S cents in circulation much more often than 1968-S thru 1973-S cents. I believe the reason is that the Mint distributed many of the 1974-S cents intermixed in with other cent bags. The Mint's explanation was that they wished to discourage hoarding of the 1974-S cents. >>

I remember that strategy used by the Mint back in '74. Seemed to work quite well.

CaptHenway · September 16, 2015 11:46AM

<< In the Eastern part of the U. S., we see 1974-S cents in circulation much more often than 1968-S thru 1973-S cents. I believe the reason is that the Mint distributed many of the 1974-S cents intermixed in with other cent bags. The Mint's explanation was that they wished to discourage hoarding of the 1974-S cents. >>

This is true. I was working at Coin World when they did this.

cecropiamoth · September 16, 2015 12:15PM

I don't sort through nearly as many cents as I used to, but in WI I would say that I find on average perhaps 10-15 of the '68-'74 era S-mint coppers per box. While not backed by any stats of what I have found, as a casual observation I would say the most common are '69 and '74 with '68 and '73 being the toughest to pull. On a side note, in my area and for those that care, copper percentages remain a pretty consistent 26 - 28% but the number of wheats per box seems to have fallen by quite a bit since 2009. Maybe 6-8 wheats per box I would guess is the norm.

Jeff

crispy · September 16, 2015 12:58PM

<< It's funny that you ask this, for a a kid in 1977 or so, CoinAge magazine had some blurb about the 'sleeper' 1973-S cent and it's potential for future price appreciation

Sooo, for the next couple of years, in addition to wheat cents, I saved 1973-S cents from circulation, accumulating a couple rolls of EF-AU coins. Still have them somewhere... >>

I seem to remember this article. I always saved "s" cents because they seemed so much less common in circulation. The '73-s seems to be the least commonly found followed by the '72-s. I still have rolls of "s" cents stashed somewhere. Funny.

oreville · September 16, 2015 1:16PM

the 73-S cents seem to be appearing more often in New York lately.

johnny9434 · September 17, 2015 5:21AM

i see more ofthe 74 s cents then i do the 71 s or 72 s cents. fwiw.

Question for penny roll searchers... How often do you see 1974 S cents?

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