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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good Afternoon. After seeing many, many threads about "unsearched" rolls; and seeing all the comments about frauds and fools. I started to wonder if anyone has ever bought, AND BEEN SATISFIED, with their purchase.
I am specifically EXCLUDING from this thread all those rolls that are obvious frauds. I.E. rolls with silver coins, vdbs, and keys on the end.
I'm not looking for a regurgitation of all the negative comments we have all seen and done to death. I am only interested in positive results.....if any
So I'll start it off. Yes, back in 2008 I found a seller that sold a lot of misc. merchandise and who had a number of "old penny rolls". I took a chance and bought a roll for about $7.50 with shipping. I was pleasently surprised to find a fair number of BU 40's and early 50's; with a fair number of XF or better 30's. I bought the rest of her rolls and ended up with a number of BU 30's and a few late 20's. A good number of which were red, but more likely red/brown.
Now I never found a key or anything especially rare. The best was a red 29s. But most of the coins were Phillys. Still all in all I did find way more value inside the rolls than what I paid for the rolls. Not hundreds of dollars more, but I more than doubled my money.
Anyone else? ( And lets see who can read!)
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Valued Member
United States
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Same as yourself, years ago ebay was a decent spot for unsearched rolls/bags of wheat cents. Nowadays it's such a joke it's not even worth it unless you're able to snag a roll for what the going rate per average wheat is. Not to mention the bonus "rare" surprise mercury/seated/gold/adamantium/kryptonite/ whatever just happened to fall into the counter 50-100 yrs ago ;) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2077 Posts |
Is there really such thing as an unsearched roll? My local coin dealer has numerous totes filled to the brim with wheats. They tell me that even if they had the time, they wouldn't bother searching through them. Just not worth it. However, when I search through my wheats and bring them the leftovers, where do you think they go? Basically, if you buy wheats, and they aren't in a mason jar covered with a good film of fly poo, they've been searched.
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Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
I have bought many rolls and been beyond satisfied, I use one seller in particular.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I bought an "unsearched bank bag" once--statistically, it was very clearly searched and "salted" with a couple lowgrade semi-keys. I did find an unsearched box of Canadian cents--where I found a lot of valuable coins, but that's the exception.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3755 Posts |
I have received several rolls that I was happy with. I also got a bag from The Coin Vault that had this in it....   Still have to send it in to find out if it is a no D or weak D, but either way, more than covers what I paid all on its own. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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But most of the coins were Phillys. Not surprising. If the coins came from the east coast I'd expect it. I come from Philly and started collecting at a young age. All my older relatives gave me their stashes. At most, one in 25 or 50 had mint marks. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I also got a bag from The Coin Vault that had this in it.... Looks like a DP4. No need to send it in, can you see any trace of the D or not? If you can see anything, then it's a weak D....if not, it's a no D. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Unsearched rolls are mostly a joke. Yes once in a great while someone finds something. But usually all coins have been SEARCHED over and over and over.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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agreed unsearched is only when your ancestor has a bag of coins dont believe it any other way
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Valued Member
United States
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I found a guy on ebay who bought large lots of wheats and buffalos that were genuinely unsearched. I bought them strictly for the dateless, and was surprised at what I found. There were some full dates, some partial, and mostly no date ones. In the 10 rolls I bought, I found a 1913-D T2 partial date, and also a 1921-S partial date. They weren't partial dates in the sense that if a mini purple flying elephant looked at it through a magnifying glass, when all the planets were aligned, and the sun was at a perfect angle to see the date, either. They were clear to the naked eye. Genuine unsearched are out there, but I would say 99% are searched. Especially when they make a point of it in the listing, over and over. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I don't want to sound mean, but I did ask that people only respond with positive accounts. We have all heard the negative ones to death.
Please READ the question and answer only if you can respond to the original intent of the thread.
Thank You!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3755 Posts |
Thad,I can see absolutely no evidence of a D. As for sending it in, I prefer to have my keys slabbed. Just a preference. Now, the question is, what diagnostics are there for that die pair? And where can I easily look that up?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 it's been almost 5 1/2 years since anyone has replied to this topic.  let's see if we can get it going again! So, I let the little kid in me out smart the older, grey haired wise man that I've come to be, (lol) and I/he bought one of those "unsearched Wheat penny bank rolls" with "Indain head cents on each end" for, (heavy sigh....) $9.99 including shipping. They showed up about 5 days later (yesterday) and that little kid in me ran from the mail box, up the stairs through the door and flopped down on the couch. I/he, tore opened the bubble envelope it came in and flipped the roll in my had to look at the one end and I wasn't impressed but, I also wasn't discouraged either. Same feeling when I flipped to see the other end. It was crimped differently telling me it had been searched and then attempted to roll it back. So, now that grey haired wise old man started tho think that little kid got the best of me again. I tore it open and to my surprise the first coin behind one of the Indians was a 1909 non vdb but that's ok with me. All in all there were 3 Indians, 1896, 1905, 1902. (2) 1909 non vdb. A 1911. (2) 1939-S. Several 1939's. A 1934,1937, 1938, A 1943 steel, An AU 1958-D and A AU 1959. The rest were barley readable 40's and 50's. I believe I came out ahead or at least covered what that little kid in me made me pay! In closing I would like to add, Never let go of that little kid in you! Let him , or her, out to play once in a while  . I'll try to post some more pics of the coins I mentioned, my microscope camera software keeps acting up.   Edited by Tootallious
10/15/2017 9:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like your little kid philosophy!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Thank you, it seems that when we are young we can't wait to grow up. Once we grow up we spend the next 50 or so years wishing we were young again.
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