LINCOLN CENT

To all the Lincoln cent people out there. I just started to dabble in the buy a few rolls of pennies to see what would happen. WHAT A SURPRISE. I bought 10 rolls from my unfriendly bank, they really did not want to sell me the rolls, but the big wig over rode them. Anyway here is what I am getting at, It seems like anything new is junk. Green, crusty, very very poorly struck, and quite frankly a big disappointment. Of course it seems only the 2000 and up is the worst. I figured it would be 1983 and up. The 1970s had the best strikes and appearance of any of the coins in the ten rolls.

Another thing that seemed to irk me, out of 500 coins only 3 2009s and I had to use a 20x glass to see that one was a 09 for all the crud and corrosion. Plenty og 2010. 2011, 2012s.

No, not one wheatie, but was surprised to get almost 75 BU 1983s, 30-40 1982 lg and sm date of which nearly all were BU, also one seemed to be brass. A few of them I could send in they were that nice, but the cost vs return is not there. I have not weighed the 83s yet, but maybe I will get lucky.

Anyway folks, food for thought, anyone else seeing the same thing?

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