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Message:: [QUOTE="davidh, post: 406086, member: 15062"]45 days might not be enough time to do this right.  That's over four rolls a day, 7 days a week for 6.5 weeks.  Doing that gets old after a while. I'm not a Lincoln expert be any means, but here's what I would do. First, decide what you want from all this.  Just key dates? a full year set?  A full year/mint set?  Only certain grades?  I'd say, that instead of just looking for key dates, you could see if you could make up a few year sets. Second, get a book on cents, or at least copy a chart from the internet showing the relative rarity of the years. Third, sort them all into decades - pre 10s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and Memorials.  With that many coins you could use whipped cream or butter tubs to organize them. Fourth, using an egg carton, sort each decade down by year. From there, it should be easy to pick out the years/mints that appeal to your needs and wants. At the end, if you have enough to make a few year sets, you could make up a few to sell/give to kids starting the hobby.  With the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Lincoln, there's likely to be a spike in interest. When you're all done doing what you want, if you just want to get rid of them, I'll take them off your hands.  Don't take them to a bank; at the very least a dealer might give you more than face value.[/QUOTE]