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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1635367, member: 112&quot;]There are things you should realize and be aware of. The mint never sold rolls of coins until the State Quarter series came out. And even then, it was never the mint&#039;s intention for those rolls to be saved intact. So no, they never cared if the paper was inert or not. They still don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was the buyers of the rolls that came up with the idea that they could save the rolls and that somehow they would be worth a lot at some point down the road because the rolls were original. And of course it is the thinking of the buyers in the secondary market that if they buy these saved rolls that they will find high grade examples hidden inside - thus enabling them to become rich !</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess what I&#039;m trying to tell you is that people created their own monster here. Of course it was bound to happen because people have always been drawn to the &quot;buying a pig in a poke&quot; scheme. Put anything in a container where the potential buyer cannot see it, imply that what is inside that container (in this case a roll) might just be worth something - and people will fall all over themselves to buy it, and pay dearly for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just think for a minute, unopened Mint and Proof sets, unsearched rolls, original bags, original bank rolls, original Mint rolls, the list goes on and on. And every single one of them is that very old scheme of buying a pig in a poke - every one ! It has worked for as long as man has existed, no reason for it to stop working now.</p><p><br /></p><p>But nobody likes to be told that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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