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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 23070, member: 68&quot;]A lot of the cents minted in the last several years are far scarce in unc than the cents from the &#039;40&#039;s.&nbsp; They are cheap not because of large mintages but because of low demand.&nbsp; Since 1965 only the cents, nickels, halfs and dollars (and states issues)have been set aside in any real quantities because these are the coins that have some demand.&nbsp; This demand is not great and few people save significant quantities of these coins.&nbsp; All coins in recent years are very readily available but if the few people all saving tthe moderns neglect a coin than it will be a tough one to find later.&nbsp; This is the primary reason for the &quot;high&quot; price on the &#039;86 roll.&nbsp; Additionally, these coins come bad.&nbsp; They are usually poorly struck and frequently tarnished or rotting.&nbsp; This means many collectors will have to buy a whole roll or two to find a nice coin for their comllection.&nbsp; Mint set coins are relatively few in number because mintage of this set is low.&nbsp; Few of the existing sets get cut up because there has always been a set premium for this date except for a brief period a few years ago.&nbsp; Mint set coins occassionally come very, very gemmy but this isn&#039;t typical.&nbsp; While many of these are nice choice coins, there are a lot with corrosion and poor surfaces.&nbsp; This simply means that mint set coins while a viable option for obtaining these coins do not come cheap.&nbsp; This is a $20 set and you&#039;ll need about four of them to be sure of getting a nice attractive Philly coin.&nbsp; This leaves the rolls which were not heavily saved and have had very high attrition since collectors tend to destroy rejected moderns by putting them in circulation and because so many of these are corroding.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the long run the &#039;84&#039;s may do even better since they have a far higher attrition, especially in the mint sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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