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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 933896, member: 68"]Cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of varieties found are very high grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many reasons this might be true. I suspect that in many cases the coin was discovered and set aside but either the owner died or forgot why he set it aside. Antime someone takes recent issue coins into a coin shop they are invariably told to just spend them. Also there is a chasnce each time a coin changes hands that the new owner will recognize it and set it aside. It only stands to reason that those not set aside would have on average changed hands much less often. Pennies don't normally travel very fatr from where they were released since they have no value at all now days (negative value really). This means there are lots of very lightly circulated cents around.</p><p><br /></p><p>BU rolls get spent if there are problems and this coin might have been in a recently spent roll.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 933896, member: 68"]Cool. A lot of varieties found are very high grade. There are many reasons this might be true. I suspect that in many cases the coin was discovered and set aside but either the owner died or forgot why he set it aside. Antime someone takes recent issue coins into a coin shop they are invariably told to just spend them. Also there is a chasnce each time a coin changes hands that the new owner will recognize it and set it aside. It only stands to reason that those not set aside would have on average changed hands much less often. Pennies don't normally travel very fatr from where they were released since they have no value at all now days (negative value really). This means there are lots of very lightly circulated cents around. BU rolls get spent if there are problems and this coin might have been in a recently spent roll.[/QUOTE]
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