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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 220721, member: 4626"]Even with your clarification, we'll still just have to agree to disagree. A roll of quarters is worth the sum total of what the coins inside of it are worth, no more, no less, period, and the fact that some uninformed people think otherwise does not change my mind about that. The paper roll and the logo on it add aboslutely no intrinsic value to the coins they contain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collect what you want of course, and if it's just personal preference that cause you to want these rolls with the Mint logo on it, go ahead and buy them, it's your money. But if you're paying a premium because of the false notion that they're any more valuable than the same coins in any other bank's roll, you're just wasting your money as far as I'm concerned.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm probably biased against any kind of roll in the first place; I just don't get why somebody would want 25 or 40 coins wrapped in a piece of paper that only allows you to see one side each of two of them, when you can use the same amount of money to get several separate coins that you can see both sides of. The only way it makes sense of me to buy an entire roll that you don't intend on opening, is to sell it later at a profit, and as an investment any roll of uncirculated coins is as good as any other, all other things being equal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 220721, member: 4626"]Even with your clarification, we'll still just have to agree to disagree. A roll of quarters is worth the sum total of what the coins inside of it are worth, no more, no less, period, and the fact that some uninformed people think otherwise does not change my mind about that. The paper roll and the logo on it add aboslutely no intrinsic value to the coins they contain. Collect what you want of course, and if it's just personal preference that cause you to want these rolls with the Mint logo on it, go ahead and buy them, it's your money. But if you're paying a premium because of the false notion that they're any more valuable than the same coins in any other bank's roll, you're just wasting your money as far as I'm concerned. I'm probably biased against any kind of roll in the first place; I just don't get why somebody would want 25 or 40 coins wrapped in a piece of paper that only allows you to see one side each of two of them, when you can use the same amount of money to get several separate coins that you can see both sides of. The only way it makes sense of me to buy an entire roll that you don't intend on opening, is to sell it later at a profit, and as an investment any roll of uncirculated coins is as good as any other, all other things being equal.[/QUOTE]
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