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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1355326, member: 19065&quot;]I was curious about this thread and appreciate the responses. It&#039;s been a long long time, but I&#039;ve seen those foil lined wrappers and wondered what the purpose was for them too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yak, I&#039;d like to see how the aluminum foil was folded on your father&#039;s rolls. I&#039;m curious if the ends are wrapped specially so as when closing the aluminum didn&#039;t scratch the obv/rev of the coins, or did people not think of that and just bunched up the foil at the two ends?</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>One more thing.... </i>I&#039;ve not seen any in person, but I have come across pictures on the internet of Mexican silver Libertad coins which come in rolls that <i>appear</i> to have some sort of metallic treatment applied to (at least the exterior of) the paper rolls they are crimped in. There is also a silver foil(?) seal that is placed over one end of the roll. You can see some <a href="http://mysilvercoins.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_19.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mysilvercoins.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_19.html" rel="nofollow">pics of them here</a>. Are these a lingering attempt at preservation, similar to the foil lined wrappers of the past? Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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