Carbon Spots Inside Mint Unc Coin Rolls

Just saw your question, Sharks (how do I reply directly to or quote someone?):

They're from 2009

For the last 20-ish years, the Denver Mint has bagged cents in ballistic coin bags that are filled by weight, and have around 400,000 cents in each bag. The Ballistic Bags are designed to protect the coins, but nothing that happens after the bags are opened protect the coins.

These bags are transported to Federal Reserve Banks, and sold to armored car companies. Loomis and Garda are two of the largest armored carriers, but there are hundreds of them nationally. The armored carriers roll the coins and sell them to banks in 50-roll boxes. Your coin rolls likely have the name of the armored carrier that rolled the coins.

Once the armored carrier buys the coins and opens the Ballistic Bags, all bets are off. Remember, these are mass produced metal objects intended to be used in circulation, and aren't treated as numismatic value items. They can be exposed to almost anything - water, humidity, dirt, etc. - while being processed, rolled, boxed, transported, stored in bank vaults, or after sale to business customers or bank customers.

Many years ago, the Denver Mint had a walk-up window where ordinary people could buy bags of coins. As a kid, I helped my dad by carrying the bags of coins he bought for our family hardware store. We did it as an advertising gimmick, trying to be one of the first places in town to have the new year's coins. We may have been the first Denver business to get the Kennedy half dollars in 1964. We beat the banks by a couple days. The walk-up window disappeared long ago.

fortcollins (above) nails it...

I suspected this might be the case, so figured I'd better verify my "hunch" before inadvertently accusing the seller of something they had no control over. Would you consider this a refund-worthy or "Buyer beware" situation?

Also, thank you very much for your fantastic explanation. This is definitely a field in which the more I learn, the less I know, so I deeply appreciate every morsel of knowledge you all are willing to share. &🙏;;#127996;#10084;#65039;

It may be hard to prove that those are rolls that he sent you,
if he knew the cents were spotted, then he is probably the type of seller who would say you switched rolls.
If you bought them of off ebay, then you might be able to get a refund as they usually lay side with the buyer.

Yes, I would have sought a refund. I would have not wanted to keep them. I am glad you were able to get the partial refund.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but I wanted to thank Sharks for posting this up.

One more thing I learned is that you can't be using the "Quick Reply" box at the bottom of the thread. You need to be using the "Go to Full Reply" button at the bottom of the Quick Reply box.

I am on other forums where there is a quote function that works much easier than this. But then again, I have been using the Quick Reply box mostly as I didn't really notice the Full Reply feature.