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<p>[QUOTE="walterallen, post: 159348, member: 4068"]The answer is simple. Any cent that has not browned has been taken care of by some means. Either by being treasured by a collector or hoarded by someone. But you must know that copper if subject to the right environment will brown. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have rolls of cents from the fifties and sixties that are BU and red. But if you look at the mintages from the mid fifties throught the sixties you'll see that there where hundreds of millions minted and sometimes almost 2 billion minted. These large mintages give room for many many cents to be saved at low expence. </p><p><br /></p><p>Look and see if you have a large or small date 1960 cent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="walterallen, post: 159348, member: 4068"]The answer is simple. Any cent that has not browned has been taken care of by some means. Either by being treasured by a collector or hoarded by someone. But you must know that copper if subject to the right environment will brown. I have rolls of cents from the fifties and sixties that are BU and red. But if you look at the mintages from the mid fifties throught the sixties you'll see that there where hundreds of millions minted and sometimes almost 2 billion minted. These large mintages give room for many many cents to be saved at low expence. Look and see if you have a large or small date 1960 cent.[/QUOTE]
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