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Message:: [QUOTE="Eskychess, post: 117066, member: 4692"]1915 is when my late grandfather was born - so I particularly like to collect coins from that year and I have to agree, they're becoming harder than heck to get ahold of at a decent price. I just completed my first set of Lincolns last week (with the 09 S VDB - not including errors or proofs - but I do have several - got my 2006s as well) and just in the last 6 months I can't believe how the price has gone up. I'm glad, but wow I wished I'd started in the 90s when real estate was the hot commodity and not coins. As for one guy hording them - Is it even possible to do so with pennies? The 1931 S story I heard was a guy that owned bubble gum machines in California. Sounds plausible... but to get 100,000 of 866,000 minted... Sounds far fetched. I have a 1931S in XF and it's one of my nicer lincolns to tell you the truth... I enjoy looking at it a lot. I've been slowly buying as many 1995 DDOs as I can around the $20 mark that come up. It'd be nice to get a whole roll of them. Yes, the double die is VERY hard to see (LIBERTY) - a good way to tell that I've seen is to look at the O in GOD on that coin ... that is doubled nicely. I've searched 100,000 pennies arleady this year and I've yet to find a loose one. I hear they're out there though.... just gotta keep searching! Esky[/QUOTE]