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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3128545, member: 10461&quot;]Kinda steep for what will almost assuredly be a roll of common Wheat cents with a common Merc dime stuck on one end, but who knows.&nbsp; You might have fun with it, anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sticking oddball stuff (silver coins, Civil War tokens, whatever) to spice up Wheatie rolls (or Heaven forbid, rolls of common circ Memorials, for all we know) is a favorite tactic of eBay sellers.&nbsp; They must think it tricks buyers into believing there might be something other than common cents in the rest of the roll.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously the older rolls with cherrypicking potential were <i>not</i> in those kind of modern wrappers, and no banks would have had dimes blatantly shining out from the open end of their cent rolls even if they did have such rolls back in the day.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you &quot;buy a pig in a poke&quot; when you buy that kind of lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Odds of finding something worthwhile?&nbsp; Very, very slim.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you never know.&nbsp; Maybe you&#039;ll at least score a few pre-1934 Wheaties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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