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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 2849837, member: 15929"]My take on "unsearched rolls" is that it is up to the buyers to determine whether or not they want to purchase such rolls because, you see, people "search" rolls for different things. New varieties are constantly being found and a searched roll from 10 years ago could very well cough up what a buyer might be searching for. Especially if its a newly recognized variety. While the effort to "save the newbies from themselves" is commendable, it's also a dead end street because you just cannot replace "education" with 'experience"! To believe that some newbie will completely drop out of coin collecting because they bought a roll of 1969-S Lincolns that was supposedly unsearched in the hopes of finding that elusive DDO worth hundreds of thousands of dollar only to find out that the roll was NOT unsearched, or that the coins looked gawd awful ugly (which most do), is a silly idea. Primarily because someone that "WANTS" to collect coins is going to use the experience and continue to collect coins until they tire of the constant chase. And it is a never ending constant chase. To imply that selling coins as "unsearched" just because you "think" they have been searched is a criminal act, is making a LOT of presumptions. The primary presumption being that the roll has been "searched" for every known variety which 9 out of 10 times is simply not the case. People search for different things.[/QUOTE]