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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 701981, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Here is my post from an earlier thread.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Many dealers sell OBW rolls, not all OBW rolls are OBW rolls though!</p><p>Before about 1998 if you bought a OBW roll you had about a 80 to 90% chance of recieving one now about a 30 to 40% chance.</p><p>Today when I buy an OBW roll it is usally from a dealer at my show or a roll or group of rolls that someone brought to the local dealer friends of mine. Even with that I suspect many have been contrived and without the dealer in question knowing it.</p><p>I will not buy any of eBay because I suspect 90% of those have been faked esp. the ones of wheat cents showing an Indian on the end - you got to know those are re-rolled and have been searched. There is also big named dealers (some out west) where they all have been searched each and every time.</p><p>The more possible value any given roll might contain the more likley that roll has been searched. There is probably not one 1969-S or 70-S Lincoln roll availible on todays market anywhere that has not been serrched and re-rolled. Soon to be true for every 1992, 1999 rolls also.</p><p>My rule of thumb is &quot;every roll has the possibility of having been searched&quot; - &quot;you never know what you are going to find&quot; (even true unsearched OBW rolls may be a BU coin or 2 on each end and the rest circ. cents), &quot;just because it is a true OBW roll does not mean you are going to find anything at all&quot;, and finally when you buy any roll of any kind, &quot;you pay your penny and take your ride&quot;.</p><p>There are many ways to tell if your OBW roll is original but you are going to have search a few thousand before you know what that is.</p><p>The earliest Lincoln OBW roll I have ever seen is 1935 - I have seen many OBW rolls of Jefferson&#039;s, Roosevelts, and Washinton Quarters but they were all dated in the late 1950&#039;s or early 1960&#039;s. I have searched many also - I have never seen an original roll of Franklins, Mecury&#039;s or any silver dollars - I have never seen a original roll of Indian&#039;s.</p><p>I have searched approx. 10,000 OBW rolls in the past 15 years. </p><p>__________________[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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