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<p>[QUOTE="therocktjb, post: 1662115, member: 43258"]That roll of Franklins could very well be searched. There isn't any viable proof that it hasn't been, especially if it all rolls were finger rolled as he says that they were. I could get some vintage rolls that were still flat, throw a Franklin on the ends and fill the rest with junk and say it is unsearched, just like almost all sellers do on eBay. </p><p><br /></p><p>And the bulk wheats at coin shops are searched through as well, same as those 500-1000 or however many pounds of wheats are. I can date search 1000 wheats in less than an hour and have them separated by decade and known error years. So all those "I don't have the time to search these" or "I know nothing about coins so..." are just catchphrases used to dupe bidders. My LCS has about 10 employees, a few that rarely are out front in the shop, and that's because they are in the back cataloging what they have to include what they've purchased in bulk. With their wheats, they sell them in lots, and most of the smaller lots have about 50-100 cents in them with a few AU/BU red's thrown into the mix. Can anyone seriously think that the LCS wouldn't search through what they buy even if in bulk for anything worth a lot of money so they can sell it at what could potentially be a huge loss because it is "unsearched?? No chance.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the rare occasion that someone is truly honest and hasn't searched what they have, the odds of the person before them searching the coins is high. I have a b ag of wheats that I got from my grandfather that I haven't searched through, but I can guarantee that he did at some point. I can't honestly sell these as unsearched.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="therocktjb, post: 1662115, member: 43258"]That roll of Franklins could very well be searched. There isn't any viable proof that it hasn't been, especially if it all rolls were finger rolled as he says that they were. I could get some vintage rolls that were still flat, throw a Franklin on the ends and fill the rest with junk and say it is unsearched, just like almost all sellers do on eBay. And the bulk wheats at coin shops are searched through as well, same as those 500-1000 or however many pounds of wheats are. I can date search 1000 wheats in less than an hour and have them separated by decade and known error years. So all those "I don't have the time to search these" or "I know nothing about coins so..." are just catchphrases used to dupe bidders. My LCS has about 10 employees, a few that rarely are out front in the shop, and that's because they are in the back cataloging what they have to include what they've purchased in bulk. With their wheats, they sell them in lots, and most of the smaller lots have about 50-100 cents in them with a few AU/BU red's thrown into the mix. Can anyone seriously think that the LCS wouldn't search through what they buy even if in bulk for anything worth a lot of money so they can sell it at what could potentially be a huge loss because it is "unsearched?? No chance. On the rare occasion that someone is truly honest and hasn't searched what they have, the odds of the person before them searching the coins is high. I have a b ag of wheats that I got from my grandfather that I haven't searched through, but I can guarantee that he did at some point. I can't honestly sell these as unsearched.[/QUOTE]
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