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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1322707, member: 31533&quot;]As much as I hate to do this (do I really mean that?), I think what you&#039;ve quoted from rascal is that he is completely right about that. The OP actually gave all the info that is needed to answer the questions:</p><p>Who found it? Did you open the roll?<span style="color: #ff0000"> they are quite well off, 86 and have absolutely no reason to fabricate it. </span><span style="color: #008000">(Later on, the OP insinuates it&#039;s his/her trusted grandparents, and so no the OP could not have opened the roll. If the grandparents are 86 now, they would have been about about age 18 then. Also the OP says the coin was not found in a roll in the box, it was separated and put in an envelope by itself; the envelope was taped to the bottom of the box).</span></p><p>Do you have the other 49 steelies from this roll? <span style="color: #ff0000">they didn&#039;t even know they still had it because it was left in a small envelope, taped on the bottom of a cigar box in a safe for over 50 years! </span><span style="color: #006400">(so no, they would not likely have the other steelies, though it wasn&#039;t said, and he did not state that they or the mint wrapping was kept. OP rather, through this story, leaves it to be thought that this is the only one that is there, and was only found by chance because of how it was saved. OP also insinuates due to the story told by the grandparents, who would not fabricate a story, that all is true.)</span></p><p>If it really was a &quot;mint issued roll&quot; it would contain only 1943&#039;s.&nbsp; <span style="color: #008000">Of course, but this isn&#039;t a question, and the OP did not state or insinuate the coin came with other years in the roll.</span></p><p>Do you still have the wrapper? If you do, please post a photo of it. <span style="color: #008000">I don&#039;t see the OP having anything except the coin, the envelope, and the tape on the envelope based on the post. Nothing else can be assumed. I think if he had the original wrapper, then the OP would have already bolstered the claims by producing that. From what I read, it seems he has the coin and the story. I don&#039;t even know if the supposed envelope and tape and box was &quot;seen&quot; by the poster, but perhaps became part of the story as to how it was acquired.</span></p><p>How would a mint issued roll of &#039;43&#039;s hang around a bank, unopened, for that many years? <span style="color: #006400">From the OP, the roll did not hang around the bank, unopened. It was the coin in an envelope that supposedly was there since 1943. </span></p><p><span style="color: #006400"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p>My supposition is that regardless of the OP&#039;s feelings about the grandparents and them not lying, he discounted that circumstances around that coin might not exactly line up with &quot;rememberances&quot; that are told about 68 years later, by persons or people that supposedly haven&#039;t seen the item in the intervening years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is, the coin itself doesn&#039;t conform to the story, in that it has apparent PMD and apparently a new surface (not mint issued).</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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