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<p>[QUOTE="bditto39, post: 4434966, member: 107194"]I bought some "unsearched" wheat rolls a few times and only a few actually seemed unsearched. Got one from one seller that was all 1955 D BU pennies, so that one seemed rather legit. You can get unsearched BU year rolls that are memorial cents or nickels sometimes that are legitimate. Otherwise, it's really unreliable and expensive for what it is. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did get some actually unsearched rolls from my bank several months back. They had old rolls of customer wrapped pennies and two plastic wrapped, so I bought some one day and went back for more after I realized what they were. The customer wraps were mixed with little of interest, but they had a good number of 1993 BU's and not a single penny newer!!! Possibly 27 year old hand rolls? Heck yeah, I'll take that to search! The plastic rolls were the best! It looks like they were both 1973 BU rolls! The older rolls I have found that are legit often are mixed with a few prior year coins, and this one was! I got a few really nice '73 P's out of it and even upgraded my penny album! <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/zbuv0pQ?s=sms" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imgur.com/gallery/zbuv0pQ?s=sms" rel="nofollow">Here is an imgur link with pictures of some of the rolls and the second plastic roll.</a> I hope I come across something like that again, but it was super fun and a great memory in itself![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bditto39, post: 4434966, member: 107194"]I bought some "unsearched" wheat rolls a few times and only a few actually seemed unsearched. Got one from one seller that was all 1955 D BU pennies, so that one seemed rather legit. You can get unsearched BU year rolls that are memorial cents or nickels sometimes that are legitimate. Otherwise, it's really unreliable and expensive for what it is. I did get some actually unsearched rolls from my bank several months back. They had old rolls of customer wrapped pennies and two plastic wrapped, so I bought some one day and went back for more after I realized what they were. The customer wraps were mixed with little of interest, but they had a good number of 1993 BU's and not a single penny newer!!! Possibly 27 year old hand rolls? Heck yeah, I'll take that to search! The plastic rolls were the best! It looks like they were both 1973 BU rolls! The older rolls I have found that are legit often are mixed with a few prior year coins, and this one was! I got a few really nice '73 P's out of it and even upgraded my penny album! [URL='https://imgur.com/gallery/zbuv0pQ?s=sms']Here is an imgur link with pictures of some of the rolls and the second plastic roll.[/URL] I hope I come across something like that again, but it was super fun and a great memory in itself![/QUOTE]
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