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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8247895, member: 105098"]how you have them now is the best protection they could really have at the lowest cost, grading will likely cost you more than they are worth currently. but as the old saying goes "Zincolns aren't forever". because of the zinc and copper, they are a ticking time bomb in circulation and lucky to last 10 years out there in the wild, while the nice ones, protected, might last 100 years and then some, maybe forever.Maybe one day, really nice zincolns will shoot through the roof, when attrition runs it's course and they dissolve the billions and billions of them, meanwhile you have them in a confined space (smaller than a slabs void space even) protected from moisture and as much air ans humidity as possible, and dust. you never know if it becomes a condition rarity many years down the road.  Don't let the orange peel look on the 1993D or the lines on the 1999 D discourage you either, both are "as struck" and still very much MS coins, both honest to goodness circulation strikes and not mint set extracts which are usually "smoother". I'd also say find coins like that condition, but from 2005-2010 from business strikes. the mint set coins are a different finish. that might be were the money is a few decades from now.[/QUOTE]