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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BadThad, post: 3149482, member: 17261&quot;]Yes, in mint state red that is. Plenty in circulated condition - those are throw aways IMO unless they have a really nice toning. The 86D rolls have always commanded a premium due to their scarcity. They made about a billion less of each issue if you compare the surrounding years. Also, nobody cared about them and dismissed them as junk (they made billions argument) - so few rolls were saved.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll say it for a millionth time - yes the mints made billions of memorial cents. However, the ones that are high grade, well struck and not filled with bubbles are probably less than 1% of the population in my experience. I&#039;ve searched well over 100k coins in my life and this is my observation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Finding high grade coins is also befuddled by dealers - 99+% of dealers HATE them so they typically only have minor inventories and that is mostly the well known varieties or errors. Dealers generally are also under the impression that you can find MS-68 coins in every mint set.....pure BS. In fact, in my experience, most mint set Lincolns are garbage. </p><p><br /></p><p>Putting together a high quality set is MUCH more difficult than doing the same for wheats![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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