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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dot, post: 159332, member: 6394&quot;]I would assume they are searched, unless there&#039;s strong evidence to the contrary.&nbsp; Also, depends on what exactly you&#039;re looking for -- what type coin, and what year?</p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s a year that has valuable errors, I can&#039;t even imagine someone selling it unsearched, UNLESS they had a whole lot from the same source, and are somehow confident that the lot is clean (for example, when the mint was still rolling cents themselves, if you got a box of rolls from the mint, there&#039;s a reasonable assumption that error coins will group together.&nbsp; Same with well struck coins. (btw, I&#039;m a novice and I&#039;m also learning the ropes right now, so I could be completely wrong about what I&#039;m saying, caveat emptor).</p><p><br /></p><p>I would look at the seller&#039;s other auctions, live and completed, and if they are selling individual coins... makes me nervous about buying &quot;unsearched&quot; rolls from them -- although, it&#039;s not impossible.&nbsp; I&#039;d look at what they seem to specialize in because not every collector can specialize in everything.&nbsp; Maybe they have a source of OBW and primarily use it for their particular coin/year, but also pick up other denominations to make a very easy quick profit by selling the rolls unsearched.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, all of that having been said.... I just recently purchased some OBWs from ebay, 2 different sellers, and in both cases, I&#039;m completely confident that they were OBW.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: Oh, and the most obvious thing to mention: just ask the seller.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done this several times, and the answer was clear enough to let me know that they may not have been unsearched (like, look for key phrases such as &quot;not searched by ME&quot; and things like that.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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