Hi guys, I bought this "unopened" box on ebay and when it arrived it looked sealed. I opened it and found the roll was torn on one side and both sides had the obverse sides of the coins showing. I was wondering if the US Mint would ever send out a package like this. It looks like the top coin on the bottom of the roll was pried out and then shoved back in because there's a fat thumb print on it. I know it's not my thumbprint. Has anyone else ever received anything like this from the mint. The seller on ebay is, of course, saying it was a sealed box and he has nothing to do with it and isn't responsible... Thanks!
If it was sealed - then I guess it is just like that. Although when I go through bank rolls, I re-srimp the sides with my thumb - the result kinda looks like what you have there....
Box was sealed. That's what I don't understand. I opened the box though because the ink used to print the bar code and production numbers was smudged and didn't look right. I wondered if it could have been just a white box with a reprint of US Mint markings in order to resell the coin roll? that's an awful lot of trouble to go through, though.. I didn't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Scammers have faked rolls, boxes, envelopes, pliofilm, and even the cellophane sleeves that the older Proof sets came in. Packaging is easy to fake.
Packaging may be easy to fake...but why? The effort seems hardly worth the $17.50 difference between the auction price and the street value of the quarters.
