I saw this on ebay today while browsing for OBW's for my collection. The seller has done a good job to document what he claims is a box of OBWs from 1972. It begs to ask though, did he open the box, go through them all, re-wrap them, and is now selling them? Are the pictures real? I have always been in the camp of NO 1972 rolls and NO 1955 rolls on ebay exist for a good reason. $40/roll seems about right. 2500 chances at a MS68 1972 DDO... http://www.ebay.com/itm/ONE-1-1972-...dividual&hash=item51aac72f85&autorefresh=true
It looks real to me, He probably knows that he would make more money selling all of the rolls than finding one DDO which is extremely unlikely.
Those look legit to me, but my guess is that he probably sampled a few rolls and discovered there weren't any major varieties in this group. Usually when you have a single source box like this or bag, the coins all came off the same few dies that were in operation at the time and if you sample a few rolls you pretty much know what all of them are going to be like. That doesn't absolutely preclude the possibility that a die change could have been made while the cents for these rolls were being produced, but it's pretty darn close to 99%. I know many variety collectors(and he's obviously a variety searcher given his Ebay name) who do that when they come across an entire bank box or bag. Sample a few rolls and if there is nothing good in those then sell the rest as OBW rolls(which they are.) Aside from that, these rolls are way too overpriced even for OBW.
That could be a good summary of what is going on. He has a bank box shown, and he shows all 50 rolls in it, but the auction says "35 available, 9 sold". So he likely grabbed 6 of the rolls (2 beginning, 2 end, 2 in the middle), sampled, and is now passing them on. Oh well...one can dream...I didn't buy any. $40 is probably better spent on powerball tickets.
Old style box, bank name on rolls, certainly appear to be legit. But do be aware, there are rolling machines out there that can do the old style crimping and some people still do this.
The last 1972 rolls I went through I found and sold over $1k worth of WDDO-002's. I posted about it on here a while back.
