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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrSpud, post: 93812, member: 4621&quot;]I believe that the reason people are willing to pay more for rolls in the US Mint wrapper (not Mint Wrapped, but in an original Mint Wrapper) is because they are unsearched and haven&#039;t been picked through yet for high grade gems and varieties. If you get brand new rolls from the bank, the rolls may or may not be unsearched. Someone could have bought a mint bag, went through them, took out the high grade ones along with any errors and varieties and rolled up the remainder and cashed them in at the bank. Likewise for any rolls bought at a coin show or from a coin shop or on e-bay. The Mint wrapper gives at least some tamper resistant evidence that the roll hasn&#039;t been picked through. Of course, someone could carefully open a mint wrapper and take out the coins, go through them and replace any Gems, but it is less likely to be so. Even more-so many years from now. I don&#039;t think they used Mint Wrappers back in the day, but wouldn&#039;t it be much cooler to buy a bunch of So-Called &quot;Original Unsearched&quot; rolls of Wheat cents from 1955 or other years with good varieties if they were in original Mint wrappers? That is what it will be like in the future for these coins that are now sold in the Mint Wrappers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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