What are your favorite penny rolls you like to purchase?

Was viewing ebay and I saw that most penny rolls even if they were random dates were getting bids.
I was wondering what is your favorite date of lincoln memoiral and wheatie roll to search...
Mine are:
1944S
1948
1968 S
1969 S
1995 D

I am just trying to get a feel for what rolls people like to purchase, since I will be purchasing quite a few rolls next week.

 

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Gotta love those "unsearched" rolls!! I'll stick to getting rolls from the bank. Better odds for the price.

 

I like searching rolls of 1909 VDB cents for each of the doubled die obverse varieties They get harder to see in lower grades though.

 

2008-P&D satin finish.

 

Statequarterguy , you must be buried in satin finish coins..!! The way you have squeeled about satin finish coins in the last 2-3 weeks is amazing.!!

Are you like buried in like 200 sets of these? cause you are some kind of adament that these are LOW-MINTAGE, that these are PROOF-LIKE, etc... We all get the feeling you are buried deep in these things.
You go so far as to call TV stations, write Whitman , etc...

Well, let me tell you, ONLY and I repeat ONLY the 2009 Satin Lincoln cents are of any value,.!! Why?? Because prior to these , the only difference was the surface srike of the coins...

In 2009 satin lincolns, this was the ONLY way you could get P and D of 95% Copper versions of these coins. Prior years, it was the same composition..Now, I agree to having these coins should have a sperate page with whitman folders and others..but even if you think 2008 are the deal, NO, they are not and will never be...only 2009. so hoard them...

 

I can't stand satin finish coins within the mint sets and as far as I am concerned they have ruined mint sets. If they were seperate, so be it like proofs. My collections post 1950 are all from mint sets and the satins have ruined that with the exception of the SMS in the 60's.

 

Ah, but the mintage of the 2008's will probably be lower than the 2009's. And yes, the surface strike of the coin is a bigger deal than the composition. The satin finish coins are easily recognized by their finish, which sets them apart as a variety, even sans the 95% copper, with a bullion value of a little over a penny. Even so, the 2009 bronze composition will create added demand.

Additionally, the 2008 satins are the lowest mintage (aside from Mint errors) of the Lincoln Memorial Series, which closed with the 2008 issues. The 2008's are already selling for more than the 2009's. I understand the theory behind the 2009's, 95% copper and bicentennials and I'm buying those too, but covering my bases with the probable winner of the satin mintage and the already winner of the Lincoln Memorial Series, the 2008's, with a mintage of approximately 745,000.

I'm not promoting the 2009's because I'd hate to say anything that may increase sales, not that anyone's listening. lol So, if you're buying 2009's, get them off eBay or wherever, just not from the mint - then, maybe, but unlikely, the 2009's have a chance at being the mintage winner for the satins. Of course this all hinges on whether or not The Mint continues the satins - if it does, the mintage winner could be somewhere in the future, either way the satins are all low mintage for a mint product that's part of the circulating series. .

200 sets? Actually, I own 10% of the 2008 and about 8% of the 2009 mintages and they won't be on the market again until the price gets to where I want it. - lol, just kidding.

 

Yeah, I've heard that before and we're all entitled to like what we like, but the fact remains, the satins exist and they are a distinct varety, similar to matte proofs. The 2008's will be the probable winner with a mintage of around 745,000, which is real low for a mint product that's part of the circulating series.

 

Now tell me the truth. Whether or not you like the satins, it appears you recognize them as a distinct variety, which they are. So, being a Lincoln collector or US Coin collector do you feel you have to have at least one example of each of the 2008-P&D Satin Lincolns, as well as the other satin years (2005, 2006, 2007 & 2009) in your collection? I know for me, whether or not I believe they have potential, I want (need) one of each in my collection.

 

As a collector of US coins, I do not purchase penny rolls. I am interested in rolls of cents.

 

Absolutely not, they are a variety and I only collect high grade business strikes. Just the same as I don't need a 1922 plain for my collection to be complete I don't need proofs let alone satin finish coins. I feel if the mint wants to make them they should have their own set seperate from the yearly mint set.

 

amen!!!

 

All of them except the satin finish ones because I never even

All of them except the satin finish ones because I never even seen one (a roll of them) to begin with and I doubt anyone else has either.
statequarterguy must be obsessed with these and or has nothing else to look at, I'm satin finished to death here.
But favorite rolls would first be "none on eBay" - there are no truly unsearched lIncoln cent roll on eBay IMO. There was until about 10 years ago - at this point I would not trust one single roll on eBay.
But back to my favorite.
1995-D, 92-D, 84-P&D, 83-P&D, 70 P,D, & S, 72-P, oh heck I love them all!!!

 

Well, that’s why you never saw a satin roll, they’re on eBay/the internet. And I’d say eBay/the internet are the future of coins/collectibles. I’m not sure where you live, but on the west coast from SF north, the number of dealers with brick & mortar shops is about one tenth of what it was when I was a kid – just too expensive to operate and limited exposure. I understand the problem with eBay/the internet, but you have the same problem with unscrupulous dealers that have shops. Granted, one should be a little more careful on the internet because some are under the misconception they have anonymity there. But there are many good dealers on the internet and it pays to learn how to operate there for the lower cost and added variety.

Anyway, don’t want to turn this thread into an internet discussion, so, as far as rolls of satins go, they do exist. However, I don’t usually buy the rolls, as by the time they get to rolls, they’ve probably been pretty picked over. I buy roll quantities of sealed mint sets if possible and sometimes I find a roll that appears to have been put together by someone that wasn’t interested in the cents and didn’t pay any attention to them.

 

This does not make any sence at all - roll quanities of sealed mint sets and sometimes find a roll???
Please explaine if you will just what are you talking about???
And No, there is absolutly nothing on eBay that I can't find better and cheaper at the shops and shows I go to, never will never has been.
And no I have never seen a roll of any of the mint set satin coins as of yet - I'll go check on eBay though.

 

Well you are right about the rolls, there is few on eBay

Well you are right about the rolls, there is few satin finish mint set singles rolls on eBay. Of course they are priced to high but they are there. Funny thing though about the main seller of the 2009 Lincoln satin finish cent rolls that are there is he does not say copper in his wording - he should have though don't you know?

 

That means buy 50 2008 mint sets, but those are "drying up".

 

Yeah, he/she is missing a key advertising point by not mentioning 95% copper.