Wax Dipped 25 Cent Rolls

Just another scam to separate the fools from their money.

The rolls will suck you dry about 10-20% of your money on each purchase .... Lotto at a faster rate, close to 40% of your money but at least with the lotto you have a small chance of coming up big but in the case of the rolls, zero to none coming up big!

I actually won this recently.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Sty...TRK:MEAFB:IT

Seller did not send because it was a mistake. Normally I'd let it go but since it's clearly a scam I'm tempted to neg them. Might help make others think twice about buying from them. Thoughts?

I emailed a guy a few years ago in regards to some "unsearched" cent rolls that the listing stated that the rolls contained certain coins and mint marks. The person stated that he sold several rolls and that he was going on what the auction winners were telling him as to what they found in the rolls. I think when they state the rolls are unsearched by the seller, they are not saying they weren't searched by someone else.

Some people have fallen for the teaser coin on the end of the rolls, I'm sure there is the occasional ooops on the end of the roll but, when a seller has several rolls with IHC, Mercs, Rosies, or any other coin and the seller lists that someone that had purchased from him before found an 09 s vdb or a 1877 IHC. If there was a possibility of those coins in a roll I wouldn't list and sell them on any auction site.

As I said in January, complete waste of money. You can buy all of these coins for dirt cheap at any coin shop.....which probably exactly what the seller did....buy, wrap and dip in wax.

I think it's a hoot how the seller states:

It's as if the seller is discovering some long lost treasure and sharing it with all of us!

We all learn from threads like these.

I enjoy going through rolls of wheats, but my set is nothing to brag about. Until recently I could often fill a hole in my album from those rolls, and I can still sometimes upgrade to a better example. It's just kind of a fun thing to do, and I enjoy the surprise of finding a penny I want to keep.

I've never bought a roll on ebay, but I assume that those teaser coins on the ends are there to make you feel better about the junk in the middle. I don't believe there's any such thing as an unsearched roll, and it's a pretty safe bet that the seller is just getting rid of coins that aren't worth selling individually. Some of those may still be appealing to me, because my set has a lot of room for improvement.

I think two dollars per roll of wheats is a reasonable price, but coin dealers have to eat, so I'm willing to pay as much as three dollars per roll, and a little more if you can guarantee me specific contents (all 1920s, for instance, or all S-mints). I've never seen wheatback rolls available on ebay for what I consider a reasonable price.

I might offer my rejects on ebay sometime, if I can figure out a way to sell them for a fair price, including postage and ebay fees, without losing money, but I think the best use of them is just to roll them back up and give them to kids.