Another Post About "Unsearched" Pennies, But...

key date Lincoln cents were being collected almost immediately after their release. why, would someone sell unsearched rolls that buyers purport to have found key date coins?

use your head.

I think that you just answered your own question

To Wjeeda
A friend of mine just received 2 rolls from same ebayer. They were from Bank of Denver, he got 13 1936 pennies, 15 from the teens a fair 1905 Indian cent and 2 AU 1958D pennies. Don't do it

Dont let anyone say there is such a thing as unsearched wheat rolls. Who among us would not search any roll of wheaties they had before they put them up for sale. These are Federal Reserve wrappers which means they should be uncirculated coins but they are not. Usually uncirculated come from a mother bank and not the Fed. Don't know what he means when he says he only looks at the end ones. At that price I would think hard about it. Its your money. Read his feedback. Seems no one has hit the jackpot. 17 Neutral and 1 Negative recently is not the greatest of feedback.

Just my opinions

edgman

I almost did that, but oh wait... I examine all wheats as soon as I put my fingers on them :P

right, and even truly unsearched lots can be found, but that doesn't mean that there will be anything valuable in those lots. example, craiglist, I just talked to a guy whose mom made him collect wheats when he was a young boy...and he stopped collecting in 1959, and he's 65. however, the oldest penny he told me about was a 1919...not very valuable at all, but he says he has another book, so let's hope that he finds the 1909 vdb he thinks he has.

Just for the sake of conversation.

I do roll searching and whenever I find a wheatie I just but the coin into a medicine bottle that would ultimately contain 300 like coins. Once it has 300 coins I place it aside. I now have 10 such bottles.

I consider those bottles to be unsearched as I have no idea now as to what coins are in the bottle. My question would now be theoretically if I sell any of those bottles would someone else consider them to be unsearched given the facts as I have laid them out.

Searched or unsearched?

ghostrider, here is how I am approaching an ad I am writing for Canadian pennies (which I do not collect). When I reach one pound of pennies, I will be selling it, thus:

UNSORTED CANADIAN CENTS ELIZABETH II SMALL CENTS

These cents have been pulled from rolls by a cashier/roll-hunter in the United States, trying to complete my Wheat cent collection. When I see a Canadian with George on it, I flip it and set it aside; if the face on the coin is Elizabeth, I throw it in a bag and move on.

This lot is for one pound of Elizabeth II Canadian small cents from that bag. As such it will contain various portraits, years, conditions, and copper/steel ratios. I have conserved a small number of these with Verdicare both to practice for my American cents and to ensure the cents you receive are in quality, not "junk," condition, but have no interest in starting a Canadian album and feel the point is better served by passing on this unsorted bag to someone with holes to fill.

As these have been collected from circulation far from home, it seems highly unlikely to me that you'll find any rare dates--I kind of figure the friendly folks north of the border will have already snapped them up. But if you have holes to fill in your Elizabeth years, this is a great lot for you!


I've had other people comment that they like both this template and the term "unsorted" as opposed to "unsearched" (I can't claim both that they're unsearched and that I know they're only Elizabeth cents, right?), as it offers both buyer and seller a fair shake. Feel free to take it and modify to fit your needs.



And WJeeda: I can open a plastic roll of cents, sort the contents as I please, and then put them back--or put back any contents I like--and you'd never know I touched the roll. If I can do that with plastic, how hard do you think it is to open paper rolls? Or perhaps I should say "how easy?" Steer clear.