To Open Or Not To Open Mint Roll 2010 Shield Cents

Well...I guess I will crack one roll tonight. You never know. Might make a discovery. Most likely just have some nice cents to keep for collection. I just hate to see the roll...wondering what treasure might be hiding in it.

My pops is supposed to be here tonight for a weekend of camping. He was supposed to buy a box of US cents for me and bring more from his home. I hope he remembered. Will make for a nice weekend of roll searching.

I'll let you know if I find anything in the mint rolls or the box. Have a great weekend all.

cladhunter13

Might as well look.
Nothing to loose.

OK, someone has posited the question" How do you keep doing double and triple posts? " I am curious: is that about posting multiple posts of comparable items, or about doubling or tripling? On this post I encouraged the opening of items....had zip to do with doubling. But as the question was posted here, here goes: I am posting about multiple items with doubling. Hot Springs, Yellowstone, and now, Yosemite. I am not the only person finding these: on an internet site right now are three of the Yosemite Doubled El Capitan for sale by one seller. I posted a similar pic of the same error some days ago. Moreover, that trio of errors is superlative, showing the COMPLETE progression. What's more, his came from bags, whereas mine were from rolls, another tidbit. Another Yellowstone I posted yesterday had what appeared as a dropped letter, but had been previously described by experts as Machine Doubling. It appeared that I was posting doubly about a double, but it really was about the very first Hot Springs and the Yellowstone. I thought them doubles, others saw them differently. I posted a pic afterwords which demonstrated a view of the error which said different things about the first error I posted. Further, I took some proactive steps to ensure first strikes this year" I ordered in the first 30 minutes of ordering, I paid for expedited handling, and all my issues were received in LESS THAN five working days, and that is a land speed record for me. Consequently, I saw these somewhat earlier than others, and I posted them quick: these are important to collectors to see. Sure I seem to post lots, but it lets others can see and make their own minds up. Some folks bulked up on orders, as did I. That's why I seem to post double about doubles here. Three items, different errors. And.....I am nowhere near done. I have another Yellowstone error, but it has not allowed me to get a good image of it yet. When I do, this forum sees it pronto, and I hope that is considered a good thing. Keeping these under my hat is a disservice to the community of collectors who seek new items to collect. Sadly, I offered some of the hot springs up to collectors-for FREE- and got ONE taker. One day in the not too distant future, that will change as folks let these set in on them.

Well, I had not noticed, but sure enough by some electronic quirk that posted twice, so please ignore the second post, as everything I wanted to say was in the first post, LOL. I will pay more attention to that oddity, as it sure is befuddling to me....one key stroke yields twice the result. Now if I could just get my stock fund deposits to do the same thing! And a very grateful thanks for that heads up, so the moderators can note it and see what is up with that. Could just be my palsy, though. I am old, after all.

I got a box of 2010 shields cents from the bank and sat on them for a month while deciding what to do with them. Just this weekend I decided to crack the box, keep all the head/tails rolls intact (22) and cherry pick the rest of them (28). I was certain I'd find so many great examples (out of a brand new box, after all) that I'd be giving them away.

Not so. Granted I'm very picky about black spots on zinc cents (I consider it a manufacturing flaw and would rather see light bag marks) and this box is chock full of them. Sure, they all look great at arms length but as soon as you put a loupe to them it's another story.

About a dozen rolls into this so far, I have two (2) examples put aside. And it's not because those 2 were completely spot free either. They were just deemed minimally acceptable after realizing I probably wasn't going to find *any* spot-free examples in this box. So far I've found about 3-4 individual sides that were totally spot-free but asking for 2 of them on the same coin apparently is asking a lot.

So to my experience there's something to look for right off the bat - shield cents without spots. Hopefully my box is the exception rather than the rule, but before you crack that roll you might want to consider how picky you are.

I had the same problem deciding whether to open mint rolls or not thinking that mint rolls would be worth much more in say 10 maybe 15 years. I discussed this with my favorite coin dealer and his reply was...." how much is that wrapper worth"? So in 2009 I unwrapped a roll of 2007 Washington Dollars and there in that roll, on my shelf in my office was 10, yes count em, ten "Godless dollars" that had been sitting there for nearly 2 years. I submitted 5 for grading got one ms-65-two ms-66 and two ms-67. I sold a 65, a 66 and a 67 for $200.00. Had I opened the roll when I got it ( from my bank) I could have at least tripled my selling price.

Have I learned a lesson? No. I still have many unwrapped rolls of different denominations waiting to hear of someone else's major find I guess. There must be something about those wrappers that I haven't figured out yet.

I've got the same question about opening rolls of 2009 LP2s looking for the finger errors. Yea or nay ?

The greater number of these good varieties are found in the two roll sets sold from the mint. The dates on the boxes help to find these better ones when you find them on sale on ebay.