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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 8363296, member: 27832"]There are still <i>some</i> left. But you definitely will NOT find them sold by the hundreds on eBay, each one coincidentally showing a potentially high-value coin on the end. And even <i>truly</i> unsearched rolls will most often contain only common coins with no rarities, because that's how "common" and "rarities" work.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Dad's family are mostly hoarders. There's a circa-1900 house that's been filling up with stuff for decades. It may well contain unsearched rolls of coins. If they don't end up in a dumpster, or cashed in at a bank, they'd probably be interesting to go through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heck, I've got an old beer bottle in my office that I filled with cents during my freshman and sophomore years of college. I'm pretty sure I filled it and taped it off before the switch to zinc. Lots of still-bright-red 1981 and 1982 coins showing. I would've caught IHCs and probably Wheats, but not clashes or cuds, and probably not even die doubling. Maybe I'll open it when it turns 50. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 8363296, member: 27832"]There are still [I]some[/I] left. But you definitely will NOT find them sold by the hundreds on eBay, each one coincidentally showing a potentially high-value coin on the end. And even [I]truly[/I] unsearched rolls will most often contain only common coins with no rarities, because that's how "common" and "rarities" work. My Dad's family are mostly hoarders. There's a circa-1900 house that's been filling up with stuff for decades. It may well contain unsearched rolls of coins. If they don't end up in a dumpster, or cashed in at a bank, they'd probably be interesting to go through. Heck, I've got an old beer bottle in my office that I filled with cents during my freshman and sophomore years of college. I'm pretty sure I filled it and taped it off before the switch to zinc. Lots of still-bright-red 1981 and 1982 coins showing. I would've caught IHCs and probably Wheats, but not clashes or cuds, and probably not even die doubling. Maybe I'll open it when it turns 50. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
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