I will admit, I got caught up in the frenzy of wanting some rolls of 2025 Lincoln Cents. My local bank only has Brinks delivery and it looks like most of the cents release so far are being distributed by Loomis, so I bought a few rolls on eBay for $10. By now, it's possible that billions of 2025s have been minted and even though the idea is to discontinue them, that could be years away. Oh well, still fun. Then I saw this one on eBay. A roll for $150 because of a "mint error." I'm not sure that an overzealous crimping device is really an error. And who rolls them anyway? Is it the mint, or is it Loomis? Nonetheless, is this roll worth $150 to you? *seller's photo
The roll is barely worth 50 cents. Even if there is some "error", it's generally not going to be anything significant. And because they mint these in the billions, it won't be hard to find or very expensive to buy. (A dollar or less.)
The US Mint does not roll any coins. Even rolls it sells are rolled by an outside vendor. The roll you pictured has severe rolling machine damage.
Checked the Mint production figures and they haven't changed for over a month now P 350,000,000 D 245,400,000 Total 595,400,000 That compares to previous years 2024 P 734.8 million D 780.4 million Total 1.5152 billion 2023 P 2.262 billion D 2.2608 billion Total 4.5228 billion 2022 P 3.1292 billion D 3.2304 billion Total 6.3596 billion 2021 P 3.926 Billion D 3.983 billion Total 7.909 billion It definitely looks like they have stopped production, maybe for good.
Maybe they're just as confused as I am about the economy and our future using the materials that they do.
Apparently production is back on again latest figures for the cent are now Philadelphia 510 million Denver 413.4 million total 923.4 million
