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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1727816, member: 44079&quot;]LoL.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not only do I buy some, I also have been known to sell searched rolls.&nbsp; Laugh if you want, but they sold.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is all in how you define searched and is the roll only new pennies, or a mix of old and new pennies.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you have ever had 5 or 6 Whitman books with holes in them, you may understand.&nbsp; In truth just last night I added 3 missing Memorial pennies to one book while wading through a cake tin full of mixed.&nbsp; Did I know there are/no, or very few at least, Wheat pennies or Indian Heads in it?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Did I sit down for 5 hours to start sorting the pennies, copper vs non-copper anyway, (1 at a time with a peek through a magnifier at each of them) yes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a lot (at least several hundred) hand wrapped rolls I have acquired from multiple sources, auctions, inheritance and yes, Ebay.&nbsp; You shouldn&#039;t ignore a roll just because so &amp; so who used to own it said he searched it or only put pennies in it from 1960 on.&nbsp; The easiest way is to simply show you.</p><p><br /></p><p>All these tins (I have more) hold pennies.&nbsp; None of them were put in the pins by me.&nbsp; I acquired these from an elderly woman who for most of her life put pennies in cans.&nbsp; So did her husband.&nbsp; They had a coin collection, but this wasn&#039;t it.&nbsp; The open loose can has many, many 1993 pennies in it in new condition.&nbsp; It also has like new and very worn 1959 pennies, and d pennies and s pennies, and a dime or 3, and I noticed today while taking the picture, a 1980s vintage NYC Subway token.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rolls neatly stacked in the square steel box WERE searched by me.&nbsp; 20 years ago.&nbsp; It is possible as soon as I find a roundtuit, they will be searched again.&nbsp; Alternatively I will sell them on Ebay&nbsp; I have already sold more than few of them.&nbsp; Described as mixed with probably no wheat pennies or Indian Head pennies and not touched in 20 years.&nbsp; They sold anyway with no problems.&nbsp; {Express Mail is the way to go when shipping 20 rolls at once in my opinion.}</p><p><br /></p><p>The rolls laying loose?&nbsp; Some (the paper ones) came from the elderly couple.&nbsp; Some (the plastic ones) came from someone else about a year ago.&nbsp; They sold them to me.&nbsp; As you can see there is a mix of new coins and old.&nbsp; I concur that (at least in the roll second from the right) probably almost all of them are newer coins.&nbsp; Not necessarily so with the rolls mixing dark with shiny pennies.&nbsp; From these plastic rolls I have recovered two 1970 S pennies and some 80s and 90s S marked pennies as described and many 59 and 60s era coins.&nbsp; I enjoy sorting such hand wrapped rolls.&nbsp; They will go in 3 bins, collecitble, the coinstar pail, and the copper pail.&nbsp; What will I do with the copper pails?&nbsp; Dunno yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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