So People Don't Actually Believe....

I wouldn't consider myself a professional or knowledgeable numismatic yet and I would never ever fall for that. Just the sheer incredible improbability that you will find a million dollar penny is enough for no roll to have gone unsearched.

There was one on there a while back, where the seller showed an old bank wrapper from a San Francisco bank (these are not hard to come by) with the coins on the end of the roll each showing the reverses with V.D.B. I am sure someone got sucked into this one. The seller probably thought he was pretty clever with that one.

Maybe it's a morals thing, I would just feel straight up WRONG if I tried to set up a roll then go through the trouble of selling it as genuine.

@solotime: I actually used to find dimes all the time in cent rolls... it's much more common than you'd think.

I could see paying a fair price for an ender + face of whatever else is in the roll, and I could see listing a roll of half dollars or whatever with a cool ender--the odds of getting a $15+ bid on a roll of halves with a 40% ender are much higher than the odds of a few 90%ers hiding in the roll. What makes me sick is that people intentionally build these to drive a profit--one member on here bought one with a '09-S VDB ender that turned out to be a poorly made cast fake.

I find dimes in penny rolls all the time, but their always dirty as hell, never silver, and barely readable. It is pretty disgusting that these people do this to build a profit, I consider it a scam.

Socal SilverHunter I have found dimes in an awful lot of penny rolls. The ones that I find all come in boxes from Brinks. So I don't believe that they are knowingly put there by packaging company.

I feel that they are mistakes. Somehow in their processing dimes get mixed in with the pennies and stay there throughout their handling process.

I've counted the coins in such rolls and there are 50. So the dime is not making up for any shortage of coins in the roll.

It is strange. However, I will say that I've never seen a dime as an ender in such a roll to my recollection. They're usually buried somewhere inside the roll.

I think they can get away with saying "unsearched" in that they've probably been tossing common date wheats into a bucket for years, and then they roll them up for these types of sales.

So even though they know what's in the rolls (and more to the point, what's not in them), they didn't deliberately look in each roll searching for valuable dates--because they know there's none there. That's how they sleep at night.