Unfortunately, Unc. is different from Mint State. I would have to say around face value unless there are errors or variety coins?? On another note, 29 days until Xmas ( @Collecting Nut).
Knowing they have all been searched. 1959-1968 High relief coins $2 per roll. 1969-1981 Low relief coins $1 per roll. 1982 and newer at face value. JMO. My LCS sell HR BU rolls for $4 ea.
There are some better rolls in the Memorials that go for quite a bit now. Even though these have probably been gone through, see if you can find an ad from Wallin Numismatics for their retail prices and go from there. Original wrapped bank rolls would bring a nice sum but these, not so much.
What puzzles me is you can pick a common date in the 60’s or 70’s and go to a coin site and it is 3.00 or even 2.00. I have 100 rolls, they have to be worth at least 100.00. Guess I am nuts.
Remember there is a difference between asking price and actual value. I have some wheaties I would sell all day for five bucks but they are only worth a modest premium. Don't be fooled by people trying to get rich over pricing coins.
There are a lot of high priced rolls in this date range. Time has been brutal so between dealers dumping them in cash registers and most of the zincolns tarnishing nice choice original rolls sell for some high prices. There is a perception that countless millions of every date were saved but the reality is several dates were lightly saved and attrition has been just as high for them as well. There is another problem which is that some were very poorly made AND lightly saved AND prone to tarnish. So if you can find something like a roll of '84-D cents the coins will be poorly struck and "bubbly" with bad surface covered in tarnish. Finding nice flat surfaces made by dies with smooth surfaces can be difficult. Collectors believe all moderns are common so very few collect them. This allows rarities to exist that nobody knows about. A lot of memorial pennies exist in astounding numbers but collectors stopped saving bags and rolls in 1964 so these numbers are far lower than most assume. Not every date after 1964 is very common.
Well said and I second your entire post. Probably from 1982-1989 the problem with plating issues continued and then things got better. But a lot of the bags in those dates that have never been opened or eventually were had contamination from those coins with zinc that permeated those bags over the years. Some bags of those dates I have seen from $300.00-$600.00 and if you do buy, you are taking a cahnce.
I've sold '84-D rolls at $20 each. Buyers at this level don't expect Gems they just expect every coin to be pristine with no rot and no tarnish. The '86-P goes even higher. Most collectors would be amazed at how much nice rolls will bring. For instance I had 20 really nice rolls of '74-S cents but when I went through and cast out all the spotted and tarnished coins I had only five rolls left. And this is one of the better dates but collectors do not know that most of them are bad. Sometimes I'll open up a zinc roll and there will be tremendous amounts of zinc oxide and not a single coin that can be saved. I suspect that some of these cents are harder to find in nice chBU and Gem than some of the older key dates. In a few more years finding something like a 1966 cent in circulation will be most improbable and you still won't be able to find rolls. The SMS's are different and there aren't so many of them left either and better than 80% of the few survivors are already tarnished. John Jay Pittman said these coins are getting used up in circulation as mr and mrs collector sleep but now they are gone or severely degraded and even the few coins that were set aside are often a mess. Collectors still snooze. Because there is no market so dealers just toss everything into the cash register to use as small change in cash purchases for Redbooks or the current proof set. Time has been very hard on moderns for many many years.
Well, I am really pissed. No one wants these even at 2 cents per coin. How about I give them away… That’s it who wants 100 rolls of UNC cents. FREE
