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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wxcoin, post: 2150553, member: 74624&quot;]I hate to admit that I have fallen into the same trap as a lot of you but I wonder if it is human nature to throw away common cents when bidding on these so called unsearched rolls.&nbsp; I recently purchased a roll with two &quot;mint&quot; state S mint tails indian cents.&nbsp; Now common sense should have told me that having S mint reverse IH on both ends of a randomly made roll is greater than winning the lottery.&nbsp; Of course, hoping for a miracle instead of using a little common sense I bid and won the auction. After I won the auction it hit me that &quot;what was I thinking&quot; and dreaded what I would find when I got the roll.&nbsp; Sure enough, one of the end coins was definitely a fake 1908-S.&nbsp; The other one is most likely real but I am sending it for certification just to be sure.&nbsp; The seller apologized and sent me a refund for half of what I paid.&nbsp; My best estimate is that if the other 1908-S turns out to be genuine AND not cleaned then I probably broke even.&nbsp; I think some of these sellers get away with using the term &quot;unsearched&quot; because they pay someone to put together coin rolls for them.&nbsp; Since they didn&#039;t actually put the rolls together they can claim unsearched and probably legally get away with it.&nbsp; Some of these sellers go my a number of different names and it is easy to figure out which ones they are.&nbsp; I had a seller from one auction I didn&#039;t win send me a message the next day offering me the 3 rolls I didn&#039;t win for my final bids.&nbsp; Of course this tells me that they used a phony account to bid against me to get the price as high as they could then sell them to me later.&nbsp; I enjoy going through coin rolls but if there are any legit sellers out there I&#039;d like to know about them.&nbsp; I believe some dealers with a lot of low end junk coins figure they can get rid of them by seeding the roll ends with better, semi-key or high grade coins.&nbsp; In most cases a buyer will bid more than the end coins are worth in hopes they will hit the jackpot inside.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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