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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2822717, member: 10461"]In the real market, I'd say ten cents apiece ... on a good day. <a href="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=lnccntmo&searchtype=any&searchtext=fmv&search=any&nmcode=10751400&guide=prices&guide2=pricesms" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=lnccntmo&searchtype=any&searchtext=fmv&search=any&nmcode=10751400&guide=prices&guide2=pricesms" rel="nofollow">Here is the correct Numismedia page.</a> In MS65 RD, slabbed, which I believe is a best-case scenario on these, a 1985 Lincoln cent lists for $7.20, as you'll see if you click that link. In MS66 RD, $16.25. This would be in a TPG (third-party graded) certification slab, like PCGS or NGC. And you'd have to pay north of $30-35+ for the slab fees to get one certified, so you'd already be in negative numbers there. Even if by some extreme longshot you got them slabbed as MS69 RD (which would never, ever happen on these), they'd still be worth $690.00 retail, not ten times that much. Raw, as-is ... ten cents apiece is my assessment. I don't know what fantasyland one sold for $6K in, unless it was a TPG-certified error coin or someone was high on angel dust.  Like [USER=56842]@Dougmeister[/USER], I would like to see you link us to that information. So yeah, despite minor flaws, they are pretty for 32-year-old zinc cents. But they're still dirt-common zinc Memorial cents, of which 5,648,489,887 were produced.  That's over five and a half billion ... with a "b".[/QUOTE]

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