Ok so I have a question concerning obw rolls. If the end coins are not error coins does it mean the middle coins are not? Lets say you have a roll of 1970 S Lincoln cents and the end coin is a large date. Does this mean all are large dates? Or if you have a roll of 1995 cents and the end cent is not a double die are they all the same? Thanks. Dusty
I would say no more than if you had a roll of 1995's and the end coin was a DDO. Doesnt mean the rest of the roll at DDO's as well. or something that I have seen.. the end coin on an Adams Dollar roll was a double edge. I can tell you that the rest of the roll was not all Double edged.. there could of been up to 5 in the roll though..
You never know what's in an OBW, I'd dropped out some brown coins even. Varieties are usually quite scarce in rolls. If you get one, you're doing well. I think the most I've found of a single variety was like 7 in a single roll.
i just pulled multiples 3 separate rpms out of an original fed roll from '56 2 weeks ago. you never know what is inside.
And unless you have x-ray vision until you open the roll you can't even guarantee that your "OBW roll" is really an OBW roll.
I have well over $600 in Lincoln cent rolls with most being OBW rolls see youtube video search for richcali21 I have opened hundreds of rolls and it just depends I find the pre 1970s rolls to be more consistent and have had several rolls be the same solid errors all the way through but it is not something you can depend on and lots of the rolls on ebay are rerolled in bank wrappers and sold as original bank rolls. I just opened one a 1944 cent roll on youtube and it was solid MS-65 or better all the way through and a quarter roll 1961 every coin had the same die break but it just depends Good Luck
I can't speak for Lincoln cents, but I've searched quite a number of OBW rolls of silver Franklin Halves, Washington Quarters, and Roosevelt dimes. Based on die cracks, filled dies, Type-B reverses, deteriorated (orange peel) dies etc., I find that there are about 4 or five presses (die pairs) filling a repository from which these coins are rolled. Example: a roll of 1946-s Roosevelt dimes yielded eight (8) coins with the same, distinctive grease filled die. That same roll had another 10-12 coins with the same reverse die crack. I see this with the other denominations, also...distinctive characteristics common to 15%-25% of a roll, but never (based on my observations) the entire roll.
