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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dimeguy, post: 1118636, member: 19855&quot;]Let&#039;s say, hypothetically, I have a &quot;friend.&quot; And let&#039;s say the &quot;friend&quot; continues to go back to the idea of building a Lincoln cent collection. This &quot;friend&quot; has decided to start off with the memorial series, all BU and build a nice varied, but somewhat higher grade (VF or higher with a few noticable exceptions) wheat set. While searching and researching memorials he notices that buying these memorial cents individually at the dealer may not be the best of ideas as the price is too great per coin.&nbsp; So, while searching Ebay (yeah, I warned him that would be a dangerous occupation for the mind fleeting with collection envy) he notices he could by a &quot;BU&quot; or &quot;Red&quot; collection of his choice encompassing years &#039;59-2010 with the &#039;60 P and D small and large dates and the seven varieites of &#039;82. Here&#039;s his current questions:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1.) Is such a description of all &quot;Red&quot; plausible or realistic to expect from a seller? Can a coin be graded MS 63 or higher with multiple &quot;carbon&quot; spots? If the coins are BU, is their fair amount of risk of lowering this grade from the loading, transporting, and unloading of these coins in tubes?</p><p><br /></p><p>2.) What&#039;s a reasonable price for a 120 coin set such as this?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>3. I, I mean my friend, is under the assumption that since these coins were produced by the billions each year, quality strike is probably especially difficult, most notably on the reverse with the details of the columns, steps, pushes, corners of the memorial, etc. If a seller is offering such a set, all high quality coins over 50 years, yes?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for all opinions on this hypothetical scenario.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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