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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 8357156, member: 105098&quot;]<a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/rolls/roll-of-uncirculated-1938-d-buffalo-nickels-total-40-coins-/a/1132-1441.s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/rolls/roll-of-uncirculated-1938-d-buffalo-nickels-total-40-coins-/a/1132-1441.s" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/rolls/roll-of-uncirculated-1938-d-buffalo-nickels-total-40-coins-/a/1132-1441.s</a></p><p><br /></p><p>the above auction was 2009,&nbsp; it was like $1100 ish.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>literally every dealer on the internet is selling them as singles, but where do you think they got them? From a roll on a collection purchase. You don&#039;t find whole rolls for sale often because dealers and littleton and everyone retails them. they buy up rolls cheap and sell them as singles so overall they make the profits.</p><p>basically the difference between wholesale and retail.</p><p><br /></p><p>A roll, is just that, a roll. they buy them cheap as they can, look through them for varieties to sell for higher or high grade coins, and resell the common ones, one at a time so they don&#039;t take a loss on it and make some money.</p><p><br /></p><p>if you are wanting to make that littleton or dealer money, then you gotta do the work and retail the singles. Otherwise, you&#039;ll be getting wholesale price, or lower, for the roll.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like was said, they were hoarded. it might be the first you&#039;ve come across but it&#039;s exactly why you found plenty of listings for uncirculated and BU single coins, and a rare instance of a BU roll.&nbsp; People like you that come across them, don&#039;t flip the rolls as &quot;unsearched&quot; because you won&#039;t maximize the return like that.</p><p>They search for the highest grade coins, and varieties, and the rest get sold raw as uncirculated singles or BU singles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of how you present it on like Ebay or something as an Unsearched roll of 1938D with pictures of the roll sealed and claim all are uncirculated, and yet completely unsearched.... it&#039;s still going to sell in the area of a mixed roll of buffalos of various dates maybe a bit higher than that if you are believable that it&#039;s all uncirculated, solid date, and &quot;unsearched&quot; and one of the people that sells them as singles will make the majority of the money off it instead of you. maybe the roll sells for $40-80... $100.... representing it that way, where selling singles might net you $10-$20-$30-$40 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>Taken out of the paper wrapper and into a clear coin tube or something, sold as a solid uncirculated or better roll on heritage or another auctionsite, probably a minimum of $1000, maybe up to&nbsp; $1500. if you take the &quot;mystery&quot; out of it and it&#039;s verified it is what it is. People would still flip them as individuals for like $40 or more each, it would not remain as an intact roll, because that&#039;s not where the retail money is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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