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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 577070, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Many of us work for years to get at stuff like this.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i>So is there a better way to ask or go about this when dealing with banks. Also does anyone know of a good TRUST WORTHY web site that I can go to order bags or un-opened rolls of old coins?</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>First it depends what you are looking for?&nbsp; At shows and through referrals Lincoln&#039;s cents, Jefferson&#039;s and Roosevelt&#039;s are still around plus a few Washington&#039;s and Franklin&#039;s but they are mostly tubed.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen a bank wrapped roll of Mercury&#039;s myself.</p><p>First for truly unopened original bank wrapped rolls get ready to pay a bunch and also not always get what you paid for. I&#039;ve paid $300 for both tubed and bank wrapped 1943-S Lincolns and threw them in the bargain bin because they were ruined with corrosion.&nbsp; Sometimes you&#039;ll buy say a roll of 1955-S Lincoln&#039;s and the end coins are fine but end up with 35 circulated wheat&#039;s because that was the way the wrapped them then.&nbsp; The seller having unopened original stuff did not know nor can you go back on them - you pay your penny and take your ride!&nbsp;&nbsp; Common circulated silver or wheat rolls are everywhere, shows, shops, clubs.&nbsp; Those have all been searched and picked over unless it&#039;s from a little old man, (or lady) that comes dragging them in - and that only happens once every 5 years or so.</p><p>I think you need to decide a little better what you really want to get, do your research and keep searching but beware, there is much to learn about rolls or bags.&nbsp; I have had the oppertunity to open and search perhaps only 15 original mint sewn bags of Lincoln&#039;s in my time and they are dwindlin fast in the market.&nbsp; The bags that are left are mostly like 1979, 77, 74 - the years with very few doubled dies and I will not even pay double face for those bags - you just can&#039;t come out on them plus if you had to ship them it would be murder.</p><p>So keep learning and gathering info and wait to buy is my advice for you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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