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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cphine, post: 713343, member: 20940&quot;]Thanks for the responses.</p><p>I suppose this was the wrong first question to ask, or perhaps I just phrased it really wrong.</p><p>Let me state for the record that I&#039;m excited about this new hobby of mine.&nbsp; It&#039;s not all about the money as I may have made it seem with the question.&nbsp; I do enjoy the collecting and am looking forward gathering some nice sets.&nbsp; It did start as just a silver hunt, but in researching finds, etc, I have actually discovered a great new interest in the history and art of coinage as well as just an outlet for my love of finding/ordering/sorting things. As I eventually get more education on the matter, learning how to grade also apeals to me.</p><p>With that said, yes, I know that I&#039;m just exchanging at the bank and not &quot;purchasing&quot;.&nbsp; That&#039;s just a term for trading a monetary item for something else.&nbsp; Exchange is more proper, and I used it later in the post, but come on, asking a teller to buy some halfs off her just rolls of the tongue better than &quot;excuse me miss, could I offer you an exchange of my paper currency for your coinage&quot;.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I also don&#039;t plan on getting rich by finding and selling coins for the bullion purchases I was talking about, but for example, some of the duplicates I&#039;ve already found are selling for several dollars worth of premiums.&nbsp; I can keep some for my collection but will enjoy selling off those I don&#039;t need for a little extra cash.&nbsp; Heck, I think that adds to the excitement of searching.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When all is said and done, I guess my original question was really about how to tell if a roll received from the bank is all new or a random mix.&nbsp; People sell them as rolls of new all the time, but if there is no way to tell the difference, how do people know that they aren&#039;t really buying a roll with a 2009 penny on either end and the middle stuffed with nothing of interest?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With all the new collectors out there just looking for the monetary aspect, I&#039;m sure it gets rather frustrating for people truly interested in collecting to be bombarded with ignorant sounding questions like the one I posed.&nbsp; Just know that while the potential to make a few bucks is of interest to me, I&#039;m also excited about beginning a collection.&nbsp; Heck, I&#039;ve been picking up Susan B&#039;s at the banks as well to get a set together.&nbsp; Not exactly a millionaire opportunity there. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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