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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 540038, member: 16510&quot;]<b>What they are worth is always what buyer and seller agree on</b></p><p><br /></p><p>What they are worth is always what buyer and seller agree on.&nbsp; Now I&#039;m not being smart but that is always the first rule of buying and selling - to answer your question and I buy and sell all memorials on a weekly basis.</p><p>Yes, they are worth more but not what you see in the price guilds - it&#039;s kind of tricky if they are tubed and I could look at them and see they were very nice I would be able to offer or be willing to pay more.&nbsp; If they are junk (and these often are) I may not want them at any price so it (like all things in life) depends.</p><p>Formula - say they bid for $24 a roll and are banked wrapped I would offer half of that and take the gamble on them being nice are having some die varieities in there (that last part is very slim).&nbsp; If they are tubed and I can look at them and they are nice I may offer $16.&nbsp; If they are tubed and super quality (this would be very rare) I may be willing to pay the full $24 maybe more as they can (over time) fetch a dollar even $2 maybe $3 in that shape.</p><p>See it all depends - I am giving you a free lesson here and it&#039;s valuable but only as valuable as buyer and seller agree upon.</p><p>Your coins probably being average at best will fetch from a dealer about 35% of the price quoted you saw.&nbsp; Not a bad find at all, I wish I had found them.&nbsp; Then again the dealer may not fool very much with Lincoln memorial Rolls and not really want them at all - so it always really does depend.</p><p>You want to get a real shocker sometime look up the price of a roll of mint state 1983-P quarters.&nbsp; But there is no dealer I know of that would pay that much for those 83 quarters.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; It will take him 4 years to get rid of them.</p><p>So, as always the truest statement in the world and the answer to almost every question is, &quot;it depends&quot; and yes, we has coin dealers/collectors do put that kind of work and thought into most every sale or purchase we make - it&#039;s not for faint of heart to say the least.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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