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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3355540, member: 77413&quot;]<b>1998-P</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I have read with interest [USER=17261]@BadThad[/USER] &#039;s occasional remarks on searching for Memorial Cents. He has been collecting a lot longer than me, and has looked through untold quantities of circulation cents. His conclusions from years of searching are that the good coins are just not out there. You might think you can just grab one from the change jar, but you really can&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the same is true with the Jeffersons. Sure, I was able to get some coins by scraping the best ones from a high-volume dealer&#039;s inventory. Their prices were extrapolated up from the next grade down, so were only a couple of dollars. I have a mental image of them breaking apart rolls, dropping the coins into slots marked BU, Choice, Gem, and so on, then gradually increasing the price on each bin.</p><p><br /></p><p>If their prices were instead computed by stepping down from the highest grades, they would have been in the three figure range instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>The intriguing point for me is that after I bought these, they went out of stock. So they had exactly one in their huge inventory, and they can&#039;t get another. Sure, they found one once, and nobody asked for it, and it sat there until I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>As it happens, the original Dansco did not contain a 1998-P. So this one, also, came from Dave&#039;s Collectible Coins (<a href="http://www.ebay.com/usr/davenders?_trksid=p2047675.l2559" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/usr/davenders?_trksid=p2047675.l2559" rel="nofollow">davenders</a> ) for $3.71. I just checked - for this purchase too, I got the last one. It is no longer listed in their inventory. Reviewing my past orders, almost every item says &quot;Unfortunately this product is no longer for sale so it cannot be reordered.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]888525[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]888527[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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