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Last Time You Found a 1959 Memorial Cent In Change?

ChuckCChuckC Posts: 1,600
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Through my usual screening of pocket change, wheat cents usually catch my eye while memorials are quickly put in with the rest. After lord knows how long, I found a 1959-D in change that just happened to catch my eye. I wonder if the date is illusive in circulation or just easily skipped b/c it's a memorial cent.

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    cladkingcladking Posts: 29,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, it's easy.

    Some of the S mints are a little tough.

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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    I don't know why it should be so, but 1959 seems strangly scarce in the Boston area. 1960's are not that common but are much more common than 1959. I am talking Philly mint. Denvers are much scarcer yet in this area.
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    foodudefoodude Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭
    I haven't noticed any in change lately, but I rdid ecently sell a BU bag of '59s, and 2 BU bags of '59-Ds.
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    RickMilauskasRickMilauskas Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭
    I found two the other day going through some rolls I picked up at the bank.

    One was AUish with some nice red around the rim.
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    tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't know why it should be so, but 1959 seems strangly scarce in the Boston area. 1960's are not that common but are much more common than 1959. I am talking Philly mint. Denvers are much scarcer yet in this area. >>



    The first time I went to Boston, I found a 1959 cent in an Au Bon Pain. I thought to myself "Ooh! A wheatie!" But then I saw the last 9 and I was like "Damn."
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    sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    I got a '59 a few weeks ago here in Seattle.
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    seatedcollectorseatedcollector Posts: 976 ✭
    seen one in the "give a penny, take a penny" tray at the smoke shop less than a week ago, i can spot a pre-69 lincoln from a mile away, probably from years of roll searching.

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