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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1261487, member: 68&quot;]It took me many years of collecting moderns to warm up to the one cent coins.&nbsp; This is because I always had the notionthat most US modern coin collectors would want to collect in gem or near-gem.&nbsp; By this I mean coins that are nearly fully stuck with minimal marking or just slightly shy of this high standard.&nbsp; One cent coins tend to be pretty common in gem and near gem because they are better made on average than other denominations and most dates were saved in substantial quanties.&nbsp; The higher quality especially applies to many of the earlier cents.&nbsp; It always seemed that saving these was a waste of valuable safety deposit box space.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years though one finds that the availability of these is highly variable and the availability of the top grade coins to which BadThad is referring can be extremely low so each year I find myself spending more and more time searching these.&nbsp; A few of the dates are even going to prove elusive in gem.&nbsp; People imagine something like a nice gem &#039;79-D cent is common and it&#039;s no scarcity but try looking at mint sets and finding a clean example.&nbsp; Not even 1% are very clean and roll coins tend to be far worse.&nbsp; Sure this is a common date roll since it was well made but finding any moderns at all that are well made and clean in rolls is very difficult.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t seen enough rolls of this date to have an opinion but if it&#039;s like most from the late-70&#039;s you can figure well under .2% will be clean and a lot of these will be poorly made.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Extremely nice cents with full steps and no marking and pleasing fields are not common for any date except the late &#039;80&#039;s Denvers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While a lot of cents have been set aside there aren&#039;t a lot of collectors doing it in a systematic way like BadThad.&nbsp; This means a lot of those rolls that come to light later on are going to be spotted and there will be some dates that are very elusive.&nbsp; A roll of scarce cents sit right in someone&#039;s garage next to a roll of very common ones because no one knows the difference.&nbsp; A lot of cents deserve protection and some don&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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