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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 17691, member: 68&quot;]Original bank wrapped tends to be very much a misnomer anymore.&nbsp; Banks rarely wrap their coin anymore and with a few recent exceptions the mint never did.&nbsp; Most of the coins now are wrapped at counting houses.&nbsp; These coins come mostly from contracted banks but also coin from the fed and some of these &quot;directly&quot; from the mint.&nbsp; The coins are usually mixed in hoppers and rolled in plastic tubes as they come out.&nbsp; There are types of wrappers in use and there will be solid date rolls when one of the ballistic bags (old pallet quantity) is fed into the hopper.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t recall seeing any bank rolls after about the mid &#039;70&#039;s. The chances of finding gems is probably even lower in these than other wrappings because the other sources are far more likely to be coins cherry picked from OBW rolls, but the chances of finding varieties is usually much better.&nbsp; This is especially true for post 1964 coins since the &quot;other sources&quot; are often mint sets which rarely have varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Original rolls (however they&#039;re wrapped) are far and away the best source for varieties right up to the current day.&nbsp; Gems can be found anywhere but generally show up in tubed coins and mint sets much more often then OBW rolls.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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