Got This Interesting Nickel Roll From The Bank

Try unrolling the ends carefully. I found a different forum that has had the same thing, but they were from the 1940s stamped by the US Treasury in Washington DC. If it was me, it would have been opened the second I got home. I tried to save unopened baseball packs for a while, but it was too hard.

Indeed, but chances are there's nothing worth anything inside. I've cracked a LOT of OBW rolls and, honestly, most of them have been disappointing.

Personally, I'd put it on ebay with a $0.99 start and see what happens.

True, but opening it does two things.

One, it removes all doubt about the contents.

Two, it removes one more "unsearched/unopened/unknown" coin roll from the hype pile.

I would open it...

I have a roll exactly like this - same font and everything. Got it from my ex-husband, who got it as a young teenager at a casino in Las Vegas. It would have been the mid- to late-1970's, and his family was doing the classic "car trip across the West."

Anyways, the casino sold nickels for the slot machines in $1 rolls, which I suppose was more convenient for the cashiers than continually having to count out a dollar in nickels for every customer who "just wanted to play a dollar's worth."

The reason my ex saved the roll was that after he bought it from the casino cashier, the casino security folks told him he was too young to play the slots and kicked him out! So he kept the roll as a souvenir.

Neither he nor I ever opened it because frankly, we don't imagine there will be anything unusual in it. Just Jefferson nickels, mostly from the 70's.

Hope that's not too un-romantic! I still think it's a neat bit of numismatic trivia.

There are no mint marks showing on the reverse on either side. I will try to get some pics put up before going to work this evening, but as I just came in from working 12 hours, I am tired and don't feel like breaking out the camera at this moment. Sorry. At least this will build up some suspense though. More pics to come.

Not really close enough for me to see all the PUP's... the top one is more modern, maybe as modern as the early 90's... The lower one is obviously older, seems to have the bulge of the worn master die from the '60's-era nickels. Between '63 and '68 most likely.

Like I said, not really detailed enough to see what I want to see... but those are my guesses.