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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 531638, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Well, this is what I study everyday and,</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, this is what I study everyday and I do not use the mintage figures at all - I use the 20,000 plus BU memorial rolls I have dumped out on this desk and here are my tough memorials.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1969-P &amp; D ( sometimes the &quot;D&#039;s&quot; come nice but generally are worn out, overused dies with clashes out the wazoo.</p><p>1971-S, 72-S, 73-S, &amp; 74-S, with 1974-S then 73-S being the worst 2.</p><p>1982-P small date zinc.</p><p>1978 &amp; 79 P &amp; D</p><p>Many 1982 thru 1985 P&#039;s and D&#039;s before the plating problems were corrected - sometimes they are nice sometimes not.</p><p>2000-P (hard to find EDS early die states)</p><p>2003-P &amp; D (same thing as above, some with weak strikes)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The primary reason IMO your analysis using mintage figures could be considered flawed is they were all minted to excess and in numbers that should guarantee available coins for collectors but some just were not saved.</p><p>Look at the 1986-P &amp; D Lincoln or the 1983-P quarter for instance.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One more thing, to then combine gem quality with full steps for memorials you will never get them.&nbsp; Just like the nickels some years will not exist - I&#039;m sorry and I would love if you were to prove me wrong but &quot;I&#039;ve seen a lot of Lincoln cents and just getting gem is hard enough and soon the coin collecting community will find out that the spot free, perfect Lincoln&#039;s they thought they could wait and get for 25 or 30 cents will be $2 or $3 and you will be lucky to get them at that - wait and see!!!!!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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