Good or bad buy?

Here is what I got. https://www.ebay.com/itm/90-Silver-...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Completely Impulse. After shipping I'm looking at a $15.45 purchase. Any thoughts?

 

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I actually bought a roll of wheat backs on eBay once and the seller thought he was pulling something over on me by inserting what they thought was a damaged coin. Ended up being a nice uncirculated 1953-D error I sold for $25. I only paid $5 for the roll.

 

Yeah, they put a $2 junk silver Merc dime as the ender, to "EDITED: Language" of a common date low grade penny roll. With fees taken out the seller probably only makes a few bucks, maybe hoping a couple bidders run up the final sale price so he gets a bigger profit.

As a buyer you just end up with a bunch of low grade common date coins unless you get lucky and find one or two decent ones in the lot that are worth something, which is unlikely.

 

You should have read the 41 negative feedbacks for the previous similar sales from this seller.
Its a scam.

 

41 negs and 70 neutrals would be more than enough to stop me bidding.

I received my one and only unjustified neg about 13 years ago and I was mortified.

These sellers have no shame.

 

well it's a prepacked, presearched coinage. They just put it in a new roll to make it look fancy to the right buyer. The ad tells you everything in it so all the coins were gathered:

• 90% Silver 1945 Mercury Dime and Wheat Cent Showing on End of Wheat Roll Sealed - Crimped Tight on Both Ends Thank you for looking and bidding on our auctions.
• This is what is exactly in these rolls:
• The end coin, and at least one cent dated from 1910 to 1919,
• cents from the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's and 1950's.
• Also included is a 1943 World War II steel cent.
• There are mint marks from every mint... Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco....
• 50 Coins Total!

If you read /see his other listings seller commonly "polishes the turd" as mentioned above.

 

What is the value of the knowledge and experience that you have gained.

 

Very small.

 

Current bid and shipping should be $8 not $15.
Even at $8 it is just someone repacking wheaties worth 3 cents each
with a $1.25 melt value Mercury on the end. You are looking at a
value of less than $3 unless there is 1 seeded good date wheatie in there.
Anything that has something on the end (Mercury dime in a penny roll)
has been searched extensively and should not be sold at these prices.
(5 times actual value.)

 

And the Merc dime thing...in a penny roll? Only because the size barely fits can they get away with that. I swear, if they could stick a beat up old 21' Morgan on the end of a worthless coin roll they would.

These sellers are either trying to unload all their junk coins to make them someone else's problem, or they are intentionally buying large bulk lots of pennies so they can resell them in this scammy way for profit.

 

considering it looks like they have a *nice* coin rolling machine using paper rolls and not premade tubes, I think they are doing the latter half of your comment ....

 

Be careful, NN. A certain word you've used has apparently been deemed unacceptable here and may result in the post receiving the dreaded "Edited: Language" scarlet letter which, of course, is a punishment unfitting of the "crime" and ends up making it look as if the user was using actual profanity. Go figure.

"Idiocy" and a few innocuous others have received it as well, so take as you will.

 

A "machine" isn't necessary to produce such ends. It can be done by hand with a little practice and/or with the use of a certain very basic and inexpensive tool.

 

"Unsearched by me". Ok, how come? Did you have your wife search it for you first. Lol

I mean I see people come into coin stores with Folgers cans full of pennies. And the guy sits there searching all of them just hoping for a key date. Usually finds nothing and tells the person to take them back. Yet we're expected to believe these eBay dealers BUY all of the coins only to NEVER search them???

 

I think I was looking at the wrong pics. his looks like Tubes, not paper rolls. So can be so easily done.

I learned how to open up rolls very easily with one of those long staple removers to unroll the end.

 

I would avoid these type of auctions.