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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 481785, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Nice Lincoln&#039;s Memorials are not easy!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>If you really want nice Lincoln memorials you are in for a job.&nbsp; I have bought and searched at least 20,000 bank wrapped rolls since 1997.</p><p>I typically get the $25 boxes much earlier in the year than this year for face value.&nbsp; I go through than separating the &quot;gems&quot; and looking for doubled dies of course.&nbsp; To get a problem free roll it generally takes about 1000 coins.&nbsp; That&#039;s right 1000, some times many more.&nbsp; With the blotchy black marks from the wash to the ones with scratches and dents this is not easy at all.&nbsp; I am very picky though and others may not be but every time I sell coins people are very pleased.&nbsp; Some dates come nice and some you will never find a gem roll of.&nbsp; Some of the rolls that come nice are 1996-D to date, (Denver rolls are most often better), the earlier 1990&#039;s are usually good.&nbsp; The bad ones are 1971,72,73,74-S, with 73 &amp; 74-S being the worst.&nbsp; 1982 smdt. zink along with most 1st and 2nd years copper coated zink cents such as 1983, 84, &amp; 85, until they perfected the plating process.&nbsp; The later 1970&#039;s such has 76, 77, 78, can be good or bad but mostly bad and early 70 P&amp;D are good.&nbsp; The sixties suffer from overused dies and range from great to horrible.&nbsp; I often see 1956, 7, and 8 rolls that are better that most 1960 thru 1985.</p><p>Week before last I bough 50 1984-P rolls and did not keep one coin, (plus there were no doubled dies either).</p><p>The best way to get them is at bigger shows and through dealers that get them from time to time and take them all, 100 rolls or whatever.&nbsp; They may not want to carry them home.</p><p>I have never opened a roll of memorial cents and was satisfied enough to keep all 50 coins in mint state although I have done that with a few B.U. Wheat rolls.&nbsp; Also, now is the time it will soon be to late as they are absorbed into this upcoming market excited by the design change!!</p><p>Good Luck!</p><p>Ben Peters[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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