2020- P Lincoln Cent Rolls in Hand

[GrumpyEd]

My year started slow and I didn't find any 2020 cents then the virus thing made me shop a lot less.
Picked up my first 2020 cent on my walk yesterday, (4-20 LOL) laying in the street with a pair of 2019s and a 2018 dime.

Makes me wonder if the mints will be making less coins this year, there isn't the normal amount of commerce going on to need them. I read that they closed the W mint and cancelled all mint tours and closed the gift shops (any SOV sets will be rare) and stopped taking phone orders and they say shipping products is delayed because of the virus. I wonder if this will create some rarities for the year.

[Petespockets55]

...... (any SOV sets will be rare).......

Not familiar with the abbreviation.

[kloccwork419]

Not familiar with the abbreviation.

Son Of a Vegan????

[DoubleYou]

Special Occasion Version sets?

[GrumpyEd]

SOV sets look like mint sets but they are not, they're a mint sealed set of the same coins in a mint set in cello like a mint set, you can only get them when you visit the mint. The SOV stands for souvenir set because it's a souvenir of your visit to the mint.

I'm not 100% sure that they sell them every year or not.

The most well known SOV sets that have big value are 1982 and 1983 because those years did not have regular mint sets so the SOVs are worth a lot if you can find them.

[Petespockets55]

Ahhh. "Souvenier Of Visit"

That's why that pair of 1983 SOV's I got last year cost so much.

[GrumpyEd]

Ahhh. "Souvenier Of Visit"

That's why that pair of 1983 SOV's I got last year cost so much.

If you got an 82 or 83 SOV you did great! I've seen some that had really nice coins in them. The quarters can go for big premiums even $20-35.
I've never got a complete set but picked up partial ones like the dime and nickel still in the cello but people had cut the quarters out.

For most other years, the dealers can cut up mint sets to sell BU singles but for 82-83 it's either got to be a SOV set or someone saved an unc roll but that was a couple of year nobody saved the unc rolls, maybe they saved some cent rolls but not much else, it was probably a mix of poor economy, lack of interest in clad coinage. Little did they know that the quarter rolls for those 2 years would sell for more than unc common silver quarter rolls.

[Petespockets55]

If you got an 82 or 83 SOV you did great! I've seen some that had really nice coins in them. The quarters can go for big premiums even $20-35.
I've never got a complete set but picked up partial ones like the dime and nickel still in the cello but people had cut the quarters out.

For most other years, the dealers can cut up mint sets to sell BU singles but for 82-83 it's either got to be a SOV set or someone saved an unc roll but that was a couple of year nobody saved the unc rolls, maybe they saved some cent rolls but not much else, it was probably a mix of poor economy, lack of interest in clad coinage. Little did they know that the quarter rolls for those 2 years would sell for more than unc common silver quarter rolls.

Yeah, it was a pair of 1983 full sets. They are sort of like "The Velveteen Rabbit" though because they were loved so much before I got them that the packaging is a little rough around the edges.