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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 24835541, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;ve sold &#039;84-D rolls at $20 each.&nbsp; Buyers at this level don&#039;t expect Gems they just expect every coin to be pristine with no rot and no tarnish.&nbsp; The &#039;86-P goes even higher.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most collectors would be amazed at how much nice rolls will bring.&nbsp; For instance I had 20 really nice rolls of &#039;74-S cents but when I went through and cast out all the spotted and tarnished coins I had only five rolls left.&nbsp; And this is one of the better dates but collectors do not know that most of them are bad.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes I&#039;ll open up a zinc roll and there will be tremendous amounts of zinc oxide and not a single coin that can be saved.&nbsp; I suspect that some of these cents are harder to find in nice chBU and Gem than some of the older key dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a few more years finding something like a 1966 cent&nbsp;&nbsp; in circulation will be most improbable and you still won&#039;t be able to find rolls.&nbsp; The SMS&#039;s are different and there aren&#039;t so many of them left either and better than 80% of the few survivors are already tarnished.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; Collectors still snooze.&nbsp; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Time has been very hard on moderns for many many years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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