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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LA_Geezer, post: 2987429, member: 89393&quot;]I have a pair of Lincoln cents Whitman folders that I bought when I was in high school. My brother had a set, too, that was lost some years ago. Volume 2 is filled with coins that were placed in our folders as early as 1960, and all of them were culled from pocket change that our mom and dad would give us. Coins as early as the prized 1955-S still have their original luster, and all of the coins through the late Sixties still appear to be as new. Even two of my 1943 cents show their original brilliance, but they were given to me by an older cousin who had coffee cans full of them that he had been collecting since the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>Volume 1 was, of course, not fortunate enough to have such shiny, new-looking coins in it, but my brother and I were still able to find a good many of the coins from the late Twenties on for our Whitman folders. Of course the real valuable ones eluded us even sixty years ago, and I have yet to convince myself that I need the two obvious ones missing that would complete my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly, I wouldn&#039;t break open a slab with a certified coin to fill one of those two empty spaces, but if I were to find an &#039;09S-VDB or a &#039;14D in a Coin Star reject bin, I wouldn&#039;t give it a single thought to fill those two empty holes. Those holes have been empty for almost 58 years, though, so I guess it&#039;s OK if they stay that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, speaking of Coin Star, I was surprised to find a very nice looking 1928D in a reject bin just last week. I often wonder how such coins make it back into circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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