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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 530597, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Is it a good/bad deal?&nbsp; It&#039;s up to you.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Is it a bad/good deal?&nbsp; It&#039;s up to you.&nbsp; I&#039;m a dedicated Lincoln cent collector and I will not pay it because as you&#039;all know. <b>&quot;I hate slabs&quot;</b> - god I love saying that so much and you&#039;all certainly give me many opportunities to say it! Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!!!!!</p><p>What I will get is boxes of them and then I will pick my usually 150 gem coins out of each 2500 box and sell the rest in tubes are rolls or take them back to the bank and turn in for face value.</p><p>It don&#039;t worry me even one little bit that we will not see any - demand is to great and demand equals availability either this month, next month or whatever they will be here on this oak desk.</p><p>I have seen rolls graded before though a few times on Buffalo&#039;s, and Mercury&#039;s - they were in pocket type pages sealed and by the early ANACS I think.&nbsp; It is rare though as I have only ever seen it about three times and as you may imagine very expensive.</p><p>You can buy whatever you want but to justify it by saying this coin would cost XXX graded or I get two free gradings, I don&#039;t matter like you think because your still getting a dollar or two of common cents for &quot;how much&quot;?&nbsp; This is a perfect example of the value system in coins being &quot;thought of without logic&quot; as I have pointed out so many times before.&nbsp; We assume that the plastic ABCD boys will &quot;carry the day&quot; or in this case make something common into something more valuable just because of perception that plastic ABCD boys equals &quot;a better coin&quot; - it does not especially in modern coinage.&nbsp; The very fact that they have &quot;jumped on this&quot; so soon is that there is a very gullible nature of us all.&nbsp; If they were really rare and hard to get would they even have them first?&nbsp; and second would they be offering them to us so readily??</p><p>Back to my dealers (only thirty or so and myself) and I&nbsp; - none of us will buy these at this price because none of our customers will pay it for them no matter what piece of plastic they are in - it will be too easy just getting them for a few cents each in the long run.</p><p>Does not this very thing happen with all new issues especially design changes on popular coins??? - we have seen this time and time again and there is nothing new under the sun so spend it if it makes you happy but don&#039;t think for a minute it&#039;s any guarantee of future collector values because it is not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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