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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Could be Indian heads instead of links.
Could be a roll of gold.
I'm not the winning bidder!
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thanks guys.New at this. thought I missed something
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Moderator
 United States
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thought I missed something Just the chance at a good laugh. You're good to go for the future now, though.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
595 Posts |
I think I came across this dealer a week or two ago and he had a bunch of these listed.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2077 Posts |
This seller had eight of these rolls listed with gold coins. A lot of his other rolls had 1909 S VDBs and 1931 S. Must be the luckiest person in the world to find all these rarities! Can't ebay do something about this? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I wonder if that gold coin might have been a jewelry piece; perhaps even, having a damaged rim or, worse yet, solder on the reverse? It might be educational to read the feedback on this roll.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2077 Posts |
His feedback is nearly perfect. I don't get it. One one hand I'm mad that he can get away with this. On the other hand I'm a bit impressed. I think he's actually making a living off this. Probably even has repeat customers.
edit: LOL, "mad" isn't what I exactly said. Guess the filter substituted it. Let's call it mad++.
Edited by OldSkoolMadSkilz
05/04/2013 10:10 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The other end just happens to be covered up in the old style roll huh...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2077 Posts |
The seller makes these rolls. If the coin on the end is a VDB, he rubber stamps the roll with a San Fransisco bank name to make buyers think there's a good chance of an S mint mark. When he puts a 1916 dime on the end, he stamps it with a Denver bank name. He's very creative. Looks like he brushes the roll with a wire brush to raise up fibers to make them look old.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
652 Posts |
I always like this part - "unsearched, and unopened by me". So someone else made the rolls for him. What a joke!
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Valued Member
United States
289 Posts |
I had completely forgotten about these on ebay. This is such a complete hoot!! We actually have 2 five gallon buckets of wheats that my grandfather had saved from the 40's to 60's and I can honestly say on ALL of them there were very few "keys". Maybe I'll start rolling my wheats and put 2006w Roosevelt dimes on one end, maybe start a new trend, LOL. I know I bought an "unsearched" roll a few years ago for $8 just to see, and of course was '40's with one steel cent thrown in. I'm completely stunned that people shot up this auction to that amount! OldSkool, what you wrote is some good information and just goes to show what some of these sellers will do. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Again I say, what is the problem? Yes, we all know the story is bunk. However, that IS an 1861 2.50 gold piece. I highly doubt it is either an S or the reverse of 58, so that would put it at about 350.00 based on the obverse. Did the fools pay too much? yep.
As with all of these, I have no problem with them as you get EXACTLY what you see in the pics. If people want to bid on what MIGHT be in there not showing, pfffftttt more power to them. And more power to the seller.
And if you ask these sellers, most of them will freely tell you they contract out to have these rolls made up by someone else.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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a member here has shown that a lot of these4 guys buy the coins on the end from ebay and then place them in the end of the roll and say "it was always there". He has shown numerous times the buy and the auction they were selling |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There is a reason why you don't find rolls like this at coin shows, cause dude would get run off the floor. Easy to have no morals sitting behind a keyboard.
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Posted 05/03/2013 11:19 pm
