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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2567887, member: 112&quot;]I could go along with that Books. But the key is being one of the people who bought the rolls when the coins were new, and then saving them for 50 years or more. </p><p><br /></p><p>But as a caveat for people who would, today, consider buying old rolls, ya never really know what you&#039;re getting. People kind of make the assumption that when they buy an old roll that they are getting a roll of uncirculated coins, but that is often not the case at all. The roll can easily be 50, 60, 70 years old, and yet have nothing in it but circulated coins, and well circulated at that. And it is not unusual for those selling these to put an unc coin at each end of the roll as an enticement.</p><p><br /></p><p>And for that matter it&#039;s not even difficult to make fake old rolls, to print up your own paper rolls, age the paper, and then sell them as old original rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>But back to the OP&#039;s question. What you&#039;re finding is correct, the paper rolls can indeed prove to be harmful to the coins. But there are several factors, different variables, involved. First of all, these rolls you&#039;re talking about, how old are they ? I&#039;m asking for a couple reasons. One, they may not be uncirculated coins at all. Two, even if they are uncirculated coins and if they&#039;ve already been in those paper rolls for several decades then the coins may well already have unattractive toning on them. Three, no matter how you choose to store them may not matter at all because of how the previous owners stored them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Do you see what I&#039;m getting at ? No matter what, you really don&#039;t know anything, not anything at all because when you buy rolls of coins you are buying a pig in a poke - every single time. And that&#039;s kind of what Chris was saying - the wrapper is meaningless. Even if you buy rolls directly from the mint those rolls may be filled with nothing but dogs, coins that you may as well just spend.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is only when you open the rolls that you can ever know what you have. And it is then that you decide how to store those coins, assuming of course that you will keep any at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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