Here's One Time I Scored A Deal On Ebay - And OH What A Deal

Do you think I should have the entire roll graded? Do any of the grading services offer an option where they look over the whole roll and only card those MS63 (or whatever grade you choose) or higher? If so, anybody have a direct link?

I'm going to the Long Beach Coin Show next week. Do the major grading services set up and grade coins there?

What are the reasons for taking them out of the roll (besides confirming that they are indeed all 1950-Ds? Is it because it is significantly more profitable to sell them individually?

Thanks again for any advice.

Thanks for the pictures. If I were you, I'd hold on to the roll for a while. If not, I would open them up and sell them individually, since you could always have a MS67 FS. Of an error or something. Either way, I don't think your going to lose any money. Obviously, selling the whole roll would be the quickest, because you only have one transaction. But once you open it you can pick out the best and sell the rest as an almost complete roll, or you can buy some additional 1950-d's to make up for the missing ones and sell it as a roll. Yes, it will be opened, but you'll get buyers.

With patience shotgun rolls CAN be opened, examined, and repacked. And having something written or stamped on the outside of the roll does not impress me at all. I can write anything I want on a roll, and I can have a rubber stamp made that says anything I want. I could get any old looking nickel roll I could find, say one with two tails and a D mint coin at each end, write 1950-D on it, then put it up on ebay with a throwaway account and I bet I could sell it for three to four hundred dollars easy. Take the money and run. If I want a bigger payout I could carefully open one end and replace the end coin with a 1950 "P", reclose it and get maybe $600.

WOW nice find! Amazing the seller didn't know what they had with a marked roll of 50-D nickels and let it go for $100...I think the roll marked 50-D would have been the first thing I would have looked at and torn into when I opened my package rather than sitting it aside!

Congrats on your great deal!

An opened roll just sold on ebay for $465. http://cgi.ebay.com/Roll-Of-Gem-BU-...ls_W0QQitemZ a href= https://www.coincommunity.com/go/link.asp?target=https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/300152601242 target= _blank rel= nofollow 300152601242 /a QQihZ020QQcategoryZ41088QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm interested in what offers you'll get at the show. Keep us updated and good luck!

I've been following this thread and waiting for updates.

WOW! AWESOME! CONGRATULATIONS!!

Please post your ebay auction on the CCF auction forum for members here!

Congrats again!

Congrads! Keep us updated with the sale.