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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 784314, member: 16510"]It's not as easy as many think depending on the quality It's not as easy as many think depending on the quality you want.I spend a lot of time within these dates from 59 to date trying to obtain gem type coins, most are not anywhere close to gem even from BU rolls or mint sets.For example if I get a brick (2500) of 2009 (whatever) Lincoln's P or D - I only ever expect 10% to be the quality I offer my customers.  That's right out of 2500 250 max to be full, spot free, nice luster coins that please me, somethimes much less rairly more.In mint sets it's not much different and also substituting a "mint set" coin for a buisness strike sort of looks out of place as you can easily tell the mint set coin (when nest to regular coins).  If colleting one of each the set will look better but require of course more coins, sets, to look through.Some of the toughest dates are: 1969-P, 1973 & 74-S, 76-D, 79-D and the 7 1982's - the hardest one in that is the 82-P smdtz to find nice.Many many challeges in this series and it depends on your taste, many people's BU would not make my AU-55 but it all depends.It's not the easy series many think![/QUOTE]