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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 748475, member: 112"]silverstream - First of all I would say that the chances of you even having an original bank roll are slim to none. To understand why I say that let me explain. When the silver dollars were shipped from the mint to the banks it was done in $1000 bags. You also have to realize that coin rolls didn't even exist until around the turn of the century. So any silver dollars could easily have undergone many things before they ever saw the inside of a roll. And banks did not always have bags of just mint fresh coins either. The coins were often mixed, some new some old. But yes it is still possible that some rolls were made up of mint fresh coins. All of that said you should also understand this. Even coins that have submitted to NGC & PCGS still sealed in original Mint Sets have been returned marked as harshly cleaned. This happens because the graders themselves do not remove the coins from the mint packaging, somebody else does that and then passes the coins on to the graders. So if they see coins that are badly hairlined they can and often do attribute those hairlines to harsh cleaning. When in fact they could have been caused by rough handling at the mint. The point I am trying to make is that regardless of the source, coins can still be attributed by a TPG as having been harshly cleaned when they were not.[/QUOTE]