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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roughwater, post: 7811689, member: 122150&quot;]Hi,</p><p>I am fairly new here but have collected a few coins here and there intermittently over much of my adult life but never really seriously until lately much to the chagrin of my wife.&nbsp; I have been trying to collect a few of the rarer coins lately and have been hungry to buy a 1909 S Indian head penny among other things.&nbsp; Someone on ebay was selling a wheat roll with a 1909 Indian on one end and a VDB on the other end of the roll.&nbsp; The seller implies he doesn&#039;t know what the roll contains. Of course I had bid on it in the hopes that the 1909 indian coin had &quot;S&quot; on the back especially since the roll is supposed to have come from Bank America in San Francisco.&nbsp; I took the bait and bid quite high and won.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know the value of coins all that well yet so I don&#039;t know if I got my money back or not but I thought I would share my experience here with you all and would appreciate your honest opinion.&nbsp; So here is how it went: </p><p>I got the package in the mail today and opened it.&nbsp; The first thing I did of course is check both ends.&nbsp; Indeed it did have a 1909 Indian on one end and a VDB wheat on the other end.&nbsp; So I opened the Indian end first and checked the coin. Unfortunately there was no &quot;S&quot; mintmark on the back.&nbsp; But the 1909 Indian did appear to be a VF or so quality coin. So I then check the back end and of course had a decent circulated 1909 VDB coin in the back.&nbsp; I started checking each coin there after kinda alternating one front and one back coin.&nbsp; Here is my assessment.&nbsp; There were 4 Indian heads in total but none were &quot;S&quot; mintmarked.&nbsp; However even though I&#039;m a newbie at judging coins since the word liberty was very easily readable I would judge them to at least fine or better and most likely VF.&nbsp; I&#039;ll post some picks.&nbsp; There was a 1909 of course, a 06, 04 and 08.&nbsp; There was also 2 1909 VDB wheat pennies and 2 other 1909 wheats also in the roll that were not VDB&#039;s.&nbsp; There were several coins that appeared could be proofs or at least uncirculated.&nbsp; They were a 1943S, 1955S, 1954S.&nbsp; There were 5 other coins that looked to be somewhere between AU to uncirculated.&nbsp; They were 1944D, 1939D, 1945S,1909 and a 1944.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a bunch of S and D mintmarked coins. 1927S, 1928S, 1921S, 1939S,1911S,1921S, two 1939S, 1920D, 1950S,1917S, 1918S,1917D,1927D,1910D,1955S,1920S,1937S,1936S,1913D,1919S,1927D, 1916D, 1910, 1926D, 1925S, 1929S, 1930D, 1928S,1935S, 1923, 1914, 1930S, 1912D, 1924S, 1949D and 1913.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I counted up the number of coins and there were 52?&nbsp; I thought a roll was only 50?&nbsp; </p><p>Seems this roll had 2 extra&#039;s.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>The quality of most coins was probably in the Fine plus range with only a couple that I think could drop into the good range.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1342196[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1342197[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1342198[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1342199[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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