The glorious result of a 50-year obsession! Lincoln Memorial set
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The glorious result of a 50-year obsession! Lincoln Memorial set
As a kid working toward his merit badge for coin collecting with the Boy Scouts, I obsessively hamstered away several specimens any time I saw a fresh roll of new pennies being cracked open. Later, my addiction progressed, and I found myself buying rolls of pennies to satisfy my urges. Year in, year out since 1973.
Today, I finally accomplished a task that I had been neglecting for quite some time. Carefully selecting the best of the best of the cents I had carded over the decades, (Yes, really!) I finally completed the next-to-last page of my Dansco. That's another 36 cents you can add to the value of my album, my friends!
I suddenly have a new-found understanding of the "300-dollar dress on a wire coat hanger!" debacle (not that I'm taking anyone's side here).
Alls I'm sayin' is that my heirs better be nice to me!
Today, I finally accomplished a task that I had been neglecting for quite some time. Carefully selecting the best of the best of the cents I had carded over the decades, (Yes, really!) I finally completed the next-to-last page of my Dansco. That's another 36 cents you can add to the value of my album, my friends!
I suddenly have a new-found understanding of the "300-dollar dress on a wire coat hanger!" debacle (not that I'm taking anyone's side here).
Alls I'm sayin' is that my heirs better be nice to me!
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Re: The glorious result of a 50-year obsession! Lincoln Memorial set
Good looking coins for in circulation finds!
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Re: The glorious result of a 50-year obsession! Lincoln Memorial set
"Non-circulated"! Here too, I invoke the 5-second rule! HA! Otherwise, any coin that passes from the mint's hands to a dealer, on to you would be, by definition, "circulated"! (Or, is it "triangulated"?)
They say the best you'll find from a roll is MS63 at best. I don't care. Cents after 1982 will always be junk to me. Yes, my aversion to them is that strong!
I only have these, because a page in a 50-dollar album told me I had to include them.
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Re: The glorious result of a 50-year obsession! Lincoln Memorial set
roll, not role.Matthudson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:11 pmHere too, I invoke the 5-second rule! HA!
They say the best you'll find from a role is MS63 at best. I don't care. Cents after 1982 will always be junk to me.
I agree, zincolns are definitely lacking in many aspects from their copper counterparts.
Question out of curiosity, what is your oldest cent found in circulation with luster?
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1956, and curiously about 2 years ago! Before that, even in the early 70s, never happened upon a wheat cent with luster! Ever! The coins I saved from 1959-1972 were mostly from old-lady relatives I could pester to surrender their jars of change to me to search through. I did offer to count and roll them in exchange for the ones I was allowed to keep.JTCC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:16 pmroll, not role.Matthudson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:11 pmHere too, I invoke the 5-second rule! HA!
They say the best you'll find from a roll is MS63 at best. I don't care. Cents after 1982 will always be junk to me.
I agree, zincolns are definitely lacking in many aspects from their copper counterparts.
Question out of curiosity, what is your oldest cent found in circulation with luster?
I got a 1909 V.D.B. F/VF in change at a convenience kiosk on the outskirts of Atlanta in March of 2012! (Surely ex someone's collection.) Just sold it this year for $3.50. Woo-hoo! Nearly free pack of cigarettes!
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Re: The glorious result of a 50-year obsession! Lincoln Memorial set
Matthudson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:20 pmIn life, we tend to be preoccupied subconsciously with that which we crave, but cannot get.JTCC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:16 pmroll, not role.Matthudson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:11 pmHere too, I invoke the 5-second rule! HA!
They say the best you'll find from a roll is MS63 at best. I don't care. Cents after 1982 will always be junk to me.
I am an actor. (That's true!)
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They're for sale! 36 cents for the coins and $14.95 for the album page, plus S&H!
I invested my whole afternoon on an utterly pointless waste of time, and couldn't have loved it more. Just wish it was IHCs or Barber Dimes, or something.
- I bought this old guy's - even older than me - penny binder for $100.00. The purchase yielded about 13 very nice coins, 1913, 1919 PDS XF, 1938 P&S BU, several crazy good 1920s cents. In addition to that, I sold the remaining 352 cents (lots and lots of dupes!) for the original $100, plus more than enough to cover the price of the Dansco. It was at that moment I decided: ONE SET of LINCOLNS!!! That's it!!! The myriad contemporaries of these mems go to the bank tomorrow after I make a few Whitman folders to give away as a door/booby prize to the kids. And my problem is, I can't seem to discipline myself to keep all my coins together. They're here in this box, there in that jar, in that folder, in this album, in the jewelry box, in the shoe box for slabbed coins. Arrrrrrrgh! I'm drowning in pennies!
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I was born in May, 1963. I coexisted with silver coinage exactly 7 months. By the time I could say, "silver", it had all been picked out of circulation. Nobody seemed interested in the 40% Kennedys - they still aren't wildly popular. I guess I could have stocked up on those as a 7-year-old, but I was unaware at the time.
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Re: The glorious result of a 50-year obsession! Lincoln Memorial set
Nice finds!Matthudson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:20 pm1956, and curiously about 2 years ago! Before that, even in the early 70s, never happened upon a wheat cent with luster! Ever! The coins I saved from 1959-1972 were mostly from old-lady relatives I could pester to surrender their jars of change to me to search through. I did offer to count and roll them in exchange for the ones I was allowed to keep.JTCC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:16 pmroll, not role.Matthudson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:11 pmHere too, I invoke the 5-second rule! HA!
They say the best you'll find from a roll is MS63 at best. I don't care. Cents after 1982 will always be junk to me.
I agree, zincolns are definitely lacking in many aspects from their copper counterparts.
Question out of curiosity, what is your oldest cent found in circulation with luster?
I got a 1909 V.D.B. F/VF in change at a convenience kiosk on the outskirts of Atlanta in March of 2012! (Surely ex someone's collection.) Just sold it this year for $3.50. Woo-hoo! Nearly free pack of cigarettes!
Never found a 1909 in circulation, but a unc RB 1941-P Lincoln a few weeks back in a bank box.
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Re: The glorious result of a 50-year obsession! Lincoln Memorial set
Well Done, Sir, you earned your Boy Scout Merit badge!
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