I just picked up an interest in collecting, and found this coin roll hunting. Wondering if I should hang on to this. The coin has not been cleaned or wiped down, it came out of the roll this way. Hoping for some advice please.
Welcome to Coin Talk. I would keep it. I likely came out of a set someone broke up for the higher denomination coins and the person just released the cent back into the wild. It is a common cent, not worth much of a premium, but it is in great condition. I would put it in a 2 X 2 or an album to make sure it retains it's luster.
Welcome To Cointalk Based on your pics your coin appears to be a nice clean circulated coin, if you like it keep it that's what this hobby is all about. JMO Dave
Love the fact that you can still, to this day, pull cents with luster that are 50/60 old years old right out of the change (or rolls). Welcome Nick.......keeper.
Thats a sweet find. Hang on to it and start yourself a catalog of nice cents.... That was the first year for the Lincoln Memorial cent. Many folks tend to hold rolls from first year of issue coins. Years later their kin will send them back into circulation. Not uncommon, but keeps us coin lovers fed!
100% keeper! Buy yourself a plastic tube and put your keepers in it. Whenever you find a nice coin like this - add it. Since you're searching you should be looking for high quality coins. There are many years for Lincolns that are tough to find quality coins for.
I've found quite a few "keepers" over the years of searching bank rolls and boxes. Most of my Memorial cents came from searching. Here's one of a few thousand I have in my collection. I found this in a roll from the bank! I still to this day remember cracking that roll and this coin landed right on top. I thought it was a proof, it stood out from the pack - like no other coin I'd ever found. To me, finding this was nearly as exciting as finding an S-VDB would be.
For a coin roll hunting find, that '59 cent is quite nice. Congrats! It's not worth a whole lot of money, but is a sweet find nonetheless.
PS- the '87 cent is not a proof (those were only struck at San Francisco that year, with an "S" mintmark), but it is also very nice for a roll find.
