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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WriterIN, post: 1398376, member: 35620&quot;]Let me add some points to the conversation. </p><p><br /></p><p>I occasionally buy penny rolls on ebay. My expectations are low, just wanna fill my Whitman books. Usually I get 4 or 5 coins I want out of 10-12 rolls. I try never to pay more than $2 a roll. I could probably buy the coins straight out from a dealer but I buy these rolls for the same reason that I buy Brinks boxes from my bank...the hunt&#039;s the thing. I also rewrap and resell the coins with full disclosure that they&#039;ve been searched, but are still good for filling out a collection or for kids. They still sell just as well. The last batch was 15 rolls, some of which came from sorting the Brinks and some from the pennies I bought earlier. It sold for $36.01, which I thought was a little high, so I threw in a 2000AM in a flip.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the points:</p><ol> <li>Don&#039;t assume that a shotgun roll that appears to be machine sealed IS machine sealed. I buy shotgun rolls from N.F. String and I have a hand sealer (cost $3.00, also from N.F. String) that when used creates a rolled seal indistinguishable from a machine sealed one.</li> <li>Always assume that &quot;Unsearched&quot; is a crock of beans. However, don&#039;t assume that its been searched for the things <u>you</u> want (Errors, Doubled Dies, etc.)</li> <li>Never expect to see AU BU or MS quality coins. If you doo find one, don&#039;t expect it to happen regularly, cause it won&#039;t. What you will find are some ungradeables, a bunch of G, F, VF and a few EFs.</li> </ol><p>If you bear all that in mind, the whole &#039;unsearched roll&#039; thing shouldn&#039;t bother you too much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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