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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 360978, member: 68&quot;]Surprisingly most moderns are not available in rolls.&nbsp; There are a few of all of them but you can&#039;t just open up the latest issue of Coin World and order a roll of 1972 quarters from anyone.&nbsp; You could write to all the advertisers in Coin World and not fiind a roll as well.&nbsp; If you did by chance find one it would only be because there is virtually no demand so it&#039;s still available for you.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Pennies are the exception.&nbsp; There are substantial numbers of every date of Lincoln memorial cents available.&nbsp; This means about 750,000 at a minimum with many being as high as 10 million for the early issues and five million for the post &#039;64 issues. (a few may be higher)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1979 is one of the most common.&nbsp; Probably about the seventh most common post-&#039;64 issue.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But don&#039;t be expecting rolls of high grade coins coming on the market.&nbsp; People didn&#039;t care about memorial pennies in 1979 and they were saved only for investment.&nbsp; People didn&#039;t seek out the finest examples and protect them against decay.&nbsp; They went to the bank and lugged home a bag or two of these as an investment and tossed them in the basement.&nbsp; Had they cared they might have looked at a few of the coins and seen they were all of horrid quality.&nbsp; They would have started a set of cents and sought the nicest examples.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>THIS DID NOT HAPPEN.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Today these would be almost impossible were it not for the existence of mint sets.&nbsp; About 1% of the &#039;79-P&#039;s are gem in the sets.&nbsp; Find 100 rolls and you&#039;ll have a gem.&nbsp; Find a hundred sets and you&#039;ll have a gem.&nbsp; Find a few gems and you&#039;ll find an MS-66.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People have collected the old coins for decades.&nbsp; If you want to worry about hoards of gems surfacing well, guess what they&#039;ll be... ...old coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>MS-67&#039;s are harder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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