Dime Or Indian Head In With Pennies On Ebay?

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cmgiscool Valued Member United States 60 Posts	Posted 07/19/2012 11:41 pm Has anyone ever bought one of the rolls of pennies on ebay that advertise having an old dime or an Indian head on the end of the roll? If so how did it turn out? Here is an example of what I mean http://www.ebay.com/itm/OLD-LINCOLN..._1620wt_1165 Report this Post to the Staff

OldSkoolMadSkilz Pillar of the Community United States 2077 Posts	Posted 07/19/2012 11:47 pm The dime and the IHP are probably the only thing you'll get out of the roll. If someone had the forethought to put some special coins at the ends, I'm sure they went through the effort make sure the middle was just so so. If it's cheap, it can be fun. If expensive, you'd be better off buying known coins. Report this Post to the Staff
HelzelsCoins Valued Member United States 419 Posts	Posted 07/20/2012 12:49 am OldSkool is right, if cheap, go for it! Other wise, I would stay away from the item. Alex Edited by HelzelsCoins 07/20/2012 12:50 am Report this Post to the Staff
basebal21 Bedrock of the Community 13014 Posts	Posted 07/20/2012 12:59 am Agreed. Theyre on the ends to temp you to thinking more are inside. If youre lucky 1 will be put in there to keep you coming back or maybe a couple on the first buy but its all a big scam Report this Post to the Staff
OldSkoolMadSkilz Pillar of the Community United States 2077 Posts	Posted 07/20/2012 01:13 am Actually it would be nice to find an S CAM in one of the rolls. Highly unlikely. Report this Post to the Staff
The_Duke Pillar of the Community United States 1745 Posts	Posted 07/20/2012 06:53 am SCAM, stay away. Value the ends for what they are and the rest at $0.48. Report this Post to the Staff
TheFlyingPenny New Member United States 11 Posts	Posted 07/20/2012 07:17 am I can vouch for the scamworthyness of these rolls. The first one I bought I paid around $30 for. (Can you tell I'm new to coins?) Then I bought 10 more for about $3 a piece. I've carefully documented every year of every coin I've gotten out of each roll (I could post the statistical results of them if you'd like). Mostly 40's and 50's wheat pennies. Fortunately I was just beginning a collection of wheat pennies, so the $3 rolls were a fast and relatively cheap way of filling in lots of gaps fast. If memory serves me correct, the $30 roll did have 15 Indian heads in from 12 different years. I also found a Mercury dime in one of the other ones. So in conclusion, they're great if you're just trying to shotgun filling most of the blanks in a new collection if you can find them at a reasonable price, but don't hope for anything too extravagant. Oh and a final word of warning, I don't buy for a second that any of them are truly unsearched; the number of teens, twenties, etc. is suspiciously consistent from roll to roll. Anyways, that s my $.02 Report this Post to the Staff
Rassi New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 07/20/2012 10:23 am I bought a roll advertised as from an estate sale that showed IHC's at each end. Roll ended up having 5 IHC's in it, oldest was in the late 1890's. The rest were all wheat cents, the newest right up to 1957. Most dates were from the 50's...but a fair mix of dates of all decades. I doubt it was worth what I paid at the time - $10. Report this Post to the Staff
CaptainFwiffo Pillar of the Community United States 4132 Posts	Posted 07/20/2012 10:45 am It's interesting that they're not complete crap in the middle. If you can pick them up cheap (i.e. what you'd normally pay for a roll of common wheats plus a handful of common, low-grade IHCs) they'd be a nice treasure for kids to fill their folders. Just don't expect to find anything of major value... Report this Post to the Staff
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