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Message:: [QUOTE="Vegas Vic, post: 1844527, member: 58810"]Just for fun I bought a bunch of theoretically unsearched rolls(I knew it would be a money losing event) What I found interesting was that some of the dealers sold me rolls with pristine red bu Indian head cents (I paid a lot for those rolls) and some sold not so good rolls. But here is my question. I had a significant number of rolls that had nothing of value in them but the rolls were listed as unsearched wheat cent rolls and they had 1958 cents. So either the seller had searched the roll or he knew somehow those rolls were specifically rolled in 1958. Same for Indian head cent rolls. There were 1909 Indian head cents so same concept applies. If you look at eBay now there are a lot of rolls being sold with the same description. You could say the seller was just assuming that it was all wheat but there was NO memorial cents in any of the rolls. Some the expensive ones had dates no higher then the low thirties which you would expect from a roll that was old enough to have 4 mint state bright red ihc's but there were the rolls with 1958's that had no memorial cents mixed in. I know enough about statistics to know the odds a roll would have a bu 1958 but only wheat cents that the dealer could claim is all wheat cents is low.  Any opinions other then I shouldn't buy rolls or raw coins from eBay?[/QUOTE]