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Bedrock of the Community
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Are they wrapped or is the foil just inserted. in the ends.
See if you can remove it without unwrapping the roll.
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They're wrapped... Can't remove the foil without tearing it.
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Pillar of the Community
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Interesting!  ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have seen this before. Collector opened bank roll wrapped them in foil (to keep them from toning) and put them back in the roll.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've seen foil wrappers before, although not "bank wrapped", the basic fold-over ones. Probably a wrapper producing company's sales pitch that the foil prevents toning. From my experience the foil actually held up and prevented toning, although I have only small time experience.
I don't think those rolls are original bank wrapped.
Because foil has not been a common practice for a long time, these were probably wrapped a while ago.
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 with jacrispies account for the wrap and the foil. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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First, Wow. I'm as old as Methuselah, and I don't remember seeing rewrapping with aluminum foil. I remember it with wax paper, but not foil. Interesting find! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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In all my years of roll hunting (across several decades), I've come across two foil wrapped cent rolls--they appeared to be hand-wrapped, not part of the original commercial coin-wrapping process.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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In my experience, it is impossible to open a roll without leaving traces. The traces of opening the roll are very clearly visible at the ends, where the paper is folded several times and thereby reduce the diameter so that the coins do not wake up.
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New Member
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Ah - I'm a fool. These comments prompted me to look again and you're correct. The end I took a picture of looks original bank roll but the other end clearly was opened and taped closed.
These are OBW and original owner opened one end, extracted the coins, foil-wrapped them, carefully slid them back into the original sleeve, and taped it closed.
Thanks to you all for helping me figure out a mystery that I should have figured out myself! :)
Edited by stuchman1
06/03/2022 1:00 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I have some rolls of BU Lincoln cents from the 1950's that were wrapped in aluminum foil. I think it was more common in the 1960's before plastic tubes became widely available. I believe the idea was it would be a good moisture and air barrier, and it could serve as a sacrificial metal to prevent corrosion on copper coins. I suspect your roll is better preserved than if it were touching the paper OBW for 50 years.
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Rest in Peace
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Quote:
Ah - I'm a fool. These comments prompted me to look again and you're correct. The end I took a picture of looks original bank roll but the other end clearly was opened and taped closed.
These are OBW and original owner opened one end, extracted the coins, foil-wrapped them, carefully slid them back into the original sleeve, and taped it closed. Sorry guys I couldn't resist .   No problem ,  Edited by T-BOP
06/03/2022 3:24 pm
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