I have come across thousands of these un searched wheat cent rolls, i have never thought about buying one but i assume they have been searched through or the seller just put nice coins on the ends and sells the roll for a high premium. Has anyone actually found some decent coins within?
The only way you'll find out, for a specific seller, is a small trial order. It's a gamble, but not a big gamble. Don't even think about trying to return them if you don't like them.
i've bought them, few here an there, once a lot of ten rolls for 60 bucks, found 1 1956d RPM, and did find some nice coins, definite upgrades for my circulation folder, heres some pics..
I have bought one on eBay for about $14. I was very unhappy to find that only one end was sealed (one was opened). I opened up the roll and it seems like it was picked all the way through. They want it to look unsearched by putting in a couple Indian heads, 1943 steels, and maybe a really beat up semi-key. After searching through the roll I found 3 common Indian heads, 1 steel, and only like 5 coins before 1940. Big whoop. The most amusing part of it is that the best graded Indian head of the bunch found its way to the end of the roll. TOTALLY STAGED! In the end I opened up a dispute and wanted my money back. eBay gave the seller and me a refund. At least I got to keep the roll!
It never hurts to get unrehearsed rolls. I have found a 1931 D. I have heard of people finding 1909 VDB in the rolls too.
The d and S 43's look like they have the SW tail, would you do me the favor of close ups of those areas?
my question for the sellers is since the rolls are unsearched, how do the know its a 'wheat cent roll' if theres indian heads/flying eagles/$2.5 gold or whatever on both ends?
a lot of these rolls come from huge hoards of bagged cents that are sent to places like hf string to get rolled, now whether the indians an such end up on the ends intentionally or accidentally, i dont know, but when getting hundreds or even thousands of rolls made up from bags of wheats with indians an such mixed in, im sure quite a few of those will end up as "enders"..an those will be picked out to sell at a higher premium..
Beyond the fact that some banks can machine-wrap coins for customers, no machine is actually needed to wrap salted rolls; just a little time and skill is all that's necessary. Modern wrapped generic wheat cent rolls done for the ease of sale and with no ill intent are one thing, but don't believe that ones showing well placed end coins are anything but the obvious. If it looks like a skunk and smells like a skunk....
Some of the sellers have legit unsearched rolls, others however, are obviously fake. There was one idiot who put a mercury dime on one end and a flying eagle on the other end. It was obviously put like that to trick someone into buying it. I bet the rest of the roll was full of 40's.
got a box of penny rolls from the bank yesterday and pulled a 1918 and a 1919 among a few other wheats but those 2 were the most worthy of mentioning. Not amazing quality but still pretty cool to come across especially with them still in circulation.
