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Message:: [QUOTE="nickelsorter2017, post: 3048855, member: 87853"]To the OP: I was a kid in the 1960s. Roll "collecting" started then. Dealers couldn't make a big enough profit selling 1960s dated cents, so they pushed rolls. 1960s dated cents in UNC are very common. Why would anybody care if a 1963 cent was MS-67? Who collects them? I do not know one collector personally who collects 1960s cents in MS-67. And, the story gets worse. In 1968 when the SF mint issued the cent, a new cent "collecting" strategy started - $50 US Mint sealed bags. As I remember it, in 1973 SF announced it would reduce the mintage and hoarders bought them all up. It was nearly impossible to find a 1973 S cent in the Midwest. To reduce the hoarding problem... as I remember it... the SF Mint shipped cents into the Denver Mint area, and sure enough 1974 S cents were showing up there. It has been suggested that this issue caused the closing of the SF Mint - hoarding of the Mint bags by dealers. 1973 S cents are still difficult to find in the Midwest in 2018 by roll searchers. I do agree that it's fun to find nearly UNC 1960s dated coins in 2018.[/QUOTE]