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<p>[QUOTE="davidh, post: 495031, member: 15062"]As I have said several times, only buy these only <b>if</b> you can identify the coins at each end of the roll <b>and</b> you need/want each of those two coins <b>and</b> the price of the roll is the price of those two coins plus about $2.50 for the rest of the coins in the roll.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, there is no such thing as an unsearched roll. Also the rolls advertised as original bank rolls are only original as far as the wrapper goes. It may still have the original crimp on one end but the other end has been opened and re-rolled shut. And that's after the original cents in the roll have been replaced with carefully selected ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have bought several of these rolls and the only ones that were any good were one where there was an S-mint IHC at one end (it was a 1908) and a few that had early S-mint Lincolns. I probably broke even on cost.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="davidh, post: 495031, member: 15062"]As I have said several times, only buy these only [B]if[/B] you can identify the coins at each end of the roll [B]and[/B] you need/want each of those two coins [B]and[/B] the price of the roll is the price of those two coins plus about $2.50 for the rest of the coins in the roll. Remember, there is no such thing as an unsearched roll. Also the rolls advertised as original bank rolls are only original as far as the wrapper goes. It may still have the original crimp on one end but the other end has been opened and re-rolled shut. And that's after the original cents in the roll have been replaced with carefully selected ones. I have bought several of these rolls and the only ones that were any good were one where there was an S-mint IHC at one end (it was a 1908) and a few that had early S-mint Lincolns. I probably broke even on cost.[/QUOTE]
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