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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 974156, member: 24633"]To reiterate what rlm has said, the banks in the 20's probably did not put the silver dollars into rolls for the customers, but I wouldn't go as far as agreeing with rlm on his description. It was probably more like one-clink, two-clink.....twenty-clink! LOL! You should also bear in mind that many of the banks did not keep bags of silver dollars on hand because they simply were not popular. Many of those struck remained in the vaults of the branch mints only to be (eventually) shipped to the Treasury Department never to see the light of day. Also, with the Treasury releases of the 60' & 70's, it seems hard to imagine anyone purchasing the $1K bags and not searching them. These were almost totally uncirculated coins. Of course, they were searched and eventually placed in paper rolls or tubes to be sold and searched (and dipped) over and over again. Thinking that anyone could acquire an "original" roll in the 80's or 90's is a little bit farfetched. Even the non-governmental hoards like Battle Creek, Continental, Omaha, Fitzgerald and Binion were searched. Sure, many dealers back then made claims of having unsearched, original rolls so they could sell them to the public. Let's face it, they weren't much different then than some of the sellers on eBay now. Chris[/QUOTE]