Rolls of cents available

GarryN · Expert Member

Just for everyone's information, I get Stack's catalogs occasionally and the Autumn Sale auction includes put together rolls or partial rolls of cents of various dates, in Lot 4638 the mintmarked dates include 1937-D, MS60-63; 1939-S, MS60-63; 1941-D, MS60-63; 1942-D, MS63-64; 1944-S, MS62-64; 1945-D, MS61-63; 1948-D, MS62-64. Philly dates include 1937, 1940, 1942, 1945 and 1951. (12 rolls, 568 coins)

Lot 4639, 15 rolls and partial rolls: 1941-D, no grades stated; 1946-S, no grades stated; 1947-D "flawless"; 1948-S (2 rolls) "most nice and lustrous; 1950-S, "minor discoloration and spots"; 1952-S, "lustrous and brilliant, a few corroded"; 1955-D, "no imperfections, some toned". Also 1942, 1944 (2 rolls), 1945, 1951, (2 rolls), 1953. (15 rolls, 748 coins).

Catalog is on the website, sale date is Sept. 24. Shocked

GarryN · Expert Member

Everyone, in the interest of follow-up, auction results: Lot 4638, the starting bid was $550 and no one bid! Lot 4639, the starting bid was $600 and it was sold for $690. Which means 1 person bid $600 and the 15% buyers fee was tacked on.

Dick · Expert Member

Which "translates" to me, someone paid 15% sales tax! I don't like auctions for that very reason. I doin't know how much it cost the seller, (owner) to have things auctioned, but 15% charge to the buyer , (IMHO) tends to scare everyone away except those who can, and will pay "what it takes" to get something. Yes, I'm poor. I was born poor, and will die poor, but that is how it is in the material world. I correct my last statement: I am not poor, in that I have a lot of very good friends, so in fact, I am RICH!
Dick

coppercoins · Site Admin

Wow....and rolls like that used to be available at the local dealer for under $25 or so each. I bought a nearly complete date and mint set from 1940 to 1958 not including 1943D or 1943S, PLUS ten extra rolls of 1953S and 25 extra rolls of 1958D...the whole shooting match was $1,200. But that was back in 1999. Same thing now would bring more like $4,000.

Amazing how fast Lincoln cents are rising in value. I'm kinda glad I have been so slow to go through and sell of the extras here. My assets have jumped to nearly ten times what they were worth in 2000 just because of procrastination (along with some good buys here and there).

eagames · Expert Member

It's also amazing that the rolls were at Stacks, I bet back in the 90s they wouldn't bother with cent rolls.

Back then most rolls were in cardboard boxes shoved under coin shop shelves and if you asked about cent rolls they dug out the box and said look yourself, memorial rolls were 75 cents or $1 and cheap wheat rolls were $5-7 with better dates for $10-30.
The only post 1941 rolls that could not be found easily were 41-d, 41-s, 42-s, 43-s, 47-p, 48-s, 51-p, 52-p and maybe 54-p.

Should have bought everything in sight!!!!! Laughing

So today if you see unc memorial rolls for cheap it might be wise to by them.

Dick · Expert Member

Ed, I agree. Especially since '82 Until someone figures a way to preserve the zinc's intact, without harming the surface, that "era" is going to be a "gap' in the collectors collections. BTW, I just got 5 rolls of "uinsearched" wheats, and was very surprised at what was in them. 1090-P, several teens, a few twenties, '31-P, '32-P, '33P-34-d, 35P& D a few 40's '43's oncluded. and some 50's. $5.95/roll. I ordered 10 more rolls.
I do not but wheats, any more, but I had a hunch, and tried.I'll p[ost a link, if anyone is interested.
Dick