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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1109206, member: 18157&quot;]The Mint generally produces bags of coins then contracts out the rolling of the coins to private firms. I believe <a href="http://www.nfstring.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nfstring.com/" rel="nofollow">N.F. String &amp; Son, Inc.</a> may be one of the Mint&#039;s contracted firms. The general public can also purchase coins supplies and rolling machines from them so you can&#039;t be 100% sure the rolls haven&#039;t been tampered with...probably not, though.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I enjoy going through Original Bank Wrapped (OBW) rolls to look for error coins...die breaks, strike throughs, brockage, etc...but I wouldn&#039;t pay a big premium to do it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You may also be able to turn a small profit on the metal content...but I would advise against it. My Father bought a number of sealed bags of memorial pennies back in the early &#039;60s. He lugged them around for 45 years...now I&#039;m lugging them around. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Not only do they take up space, but there are security and environmental hazards to consider. Oh...and the pennies had 20x more purchasing power when he bought them so he lost any potential profit...and THEN some. Had he put that money into McDonald&#039;s stock back then...I could hire someone to lug these pennies around for me!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Even though there were only 86 Million nickels and 146 Million dimes minted in 2009, that&#039;s still a LOTTA coins! ...and folks are hoarding them because of the low mintage.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Take the 1955-D Washington quarter, for instance...mintage: 3,182,400. That was a low mintage even for back then. Folks hoarded them like crazy and now they are one of the most plentiful dates. I picked up 40 rolls of them prior to 2007. I got them for $80-$120/roll. I thought I had &quot;cornered the market&quot;...not!! Lucky for me silver&#039;s gone up since then. I need to start selling them off to the next guy that wants a low mintage coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Something to think about...:thumb:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Good Luck...and :welcome: to CT![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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