Lincoln cent collection

almost finished my Lincoln penny album 1940-1959

 

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Welcome to CT. Good job on the folder I’m working on another one myself. Keep up the hunt.
Reed.

 

Welcome to CoinTalk and keep looking. A 42 S in the wild today will be a nice find!

 

About how much such an album is worth I was working on it for 1/2 a year

 

Welcome to CT, I see them a lot from 6-10 $ its the hunt that's fun.

 

Fun fun fun

 

True it’s full of fun that’s our hobby

 

Welcome to CT. The fun is in the hunt. As you see, an album like that is easy to buy. As you found out, they it is not easy to fill.

 

Very nice, only a few left to go.

Welcome to CT.

 

Value could also be determined by the grade of the coins in it.

 

I have a couple of nice 1959-Ds. I dug one up yesterday metal detecting, but it's not in great shape I am doing catch and release on that one.
Too bad you don't have 2 extra holes as there are 4 types of 1960 pennies.
1960 small date, 1960 large date, 1960-D small date, 1960-D large date.
3 of them are easy to get. And 1 is very hard.

 

That's amazing! All of these pulled from circulation?

 

@Ptachia A person has to start somewhere. And this is a good start. Access to the earlier ones is a matter of when you were born and when you started collecting. I was already an avid collector when the mint changed from Wheat to Memorial. And, I was in high school at the time. For speculation, most of the collectors I knew started saving wheat pennies and picking up a supply of the new memorial cents. Therefore, I have a few hundred uncirculated and circulated 1959's. Way too many for one person.
Like @Michael K says, expand your collection. The larger your interest, the more you will find to fill your collection.

 

I know your hunting in the wild for the 42s if you cannot locate one let me know . I has 3 or 4 and would send you one for no cost. I would however need a place to send it and cannot promise what the grade would be. Keep on hunting that is quite a feat finding all those in roll hunting or however you do it!! Dillan

 

Indeed! My dad fostered us into collecting back in the mid 1950s when most of these Wheats were very common. Even so, it took my brother and I more than a year or so to find them all—and that was just from the pocket change that Mom and Dad gave us to sort through.

 

I remember when I finished my set of the 1940 to date Lincoln cents back in the early 1960s. I was so proud of it that I typed out a little sign on a typewriter and taped it to the bottom of the middle page.

The only coin I had to buy was the 1955-S cent. I bought one at Woolworths' for the outragious price of 80 cents, which would still be too much money today. For some reason I could never find one in circulation.

 

True I am 17 totally fascinated by coins not my parents or grandparents collected so it’s very hard to have a collection but I hunt a lot just last week I found 4 silver dimes one of my good days

 

Indeed, the '55-S was the holy grail for my brother and me too. There was much we based our hopes on what we read in The Red Book. We were living in State College PA then. Mom got both of ours at the A&P. My younger brother and I in October, 1956.

 

Four silver dimes in one week?! That's amazing. How did you manage that?

 

That is one cool photo , I really like the brotherly love , and that old army car in the background. Thank you for sharing that photo and story with us here at Coin Talk . Keep them coming . Dillan