Finding Original Rolls

twoods. I have a few. All my rolls are original bank wrapped and un-researched.

not that it helps much but my LCS had an original roll of 1939 dollars once....sadly they were sold before I had the chance to buy it. the buyer cracked it..

Be careful what you wish for.
I bought an OBW roll of '59 nickels from a reputable dealer a few years back.
Last Christmastime for some reason I just had to crack it open.
Only 2 would have made 64 the rest were 63 or less most being 62.
Not one coin out of the forty worth submitting.
Now I have a pile of change not worth selling.
Before I cracked it there was at least some value.

You can also collect rolls for their own sake.
I have a complete set of OBW and mint wrapped rolls of 25cents from 1956 to present.
I have '53 '54 and '55 BU rolls that have been made up.
This collection has been over thirty years in the making.
I will likely never find the three earliest rolls in truly original wraps at a price that I can afford.
When I pass this collection will pass to my middle granddaughter who is now 23 with instructions for the collection to remain intact until 2053 when the first Elizabeth quarters will be 100 years old. She has agreed to this and I trust that of all nine grandchildren she is the one most likely to carry it through.

Possibly the role of Brinks varied across the country, but in Western Canada it began by only serving as a secure transportation carrier between banks including the collection of deposits from large commercial depositors. Only banks received loose mint coin directly from BofC and it was rolled in paper bank labeled wrappers, with both of the ends sealed (crimped) firmly shut. If my memory is correct, it was only about in the '90s when Brinks began receiving and supplying mint coin.

Part of the challenge today in finding older unsearched mint rolls from decades ago is recognizing the original wrapper that each of the different banks used at the time. For example prior to the '60s and mergers, CIBC was the Imperial Bank and The Bank of Commerce. ebay often has good examples of original rolls, but looking closely it's obvious one of the ends has been opened and the roll searched at some point in time because it is impossible to firmly and tightly reroll the crimped end back to its original state.

Aside from that, paper disintegrates over time and therefore it would be natural for original mint roll collectors to have repackaged mint rolls solely for the sake of preservation, making the search for what is unsearched even more difficult at this point in time. Unless a buyer knows that a seller has owned the rolls ever since the coin was minted, I think that all makes the success rate of attempting to buy "unsearched" mint rolls on the secondary market to be very low.

Also Brinks was mentioned earlier. There are wrapped Brinks Rolls of the 1982 Constitution Nickel Dollar available from time to time. Most of those have been cracked for coinage alignment errors and high graders though.

I'd wonder when they were placed in a Brink's coin roll and by whom because I can't think of anyone in Canada that Brink's would have supplied 1982 Constitution Nickel Dollars to.

In the early '90s Brinks took over servicing and supplying of cash to ATMs. Noticing the history of the company on their website, that seems to be about the earliest possible time within Canada that the company took on their new role of direct supplier of circulated coin and currency.

However Brinks is a US company. Perhaps across the border Brink's function was very different?

@ DBM would you kindly clarify what era of Mint rolls from Brink's that you're referring and how they're packaged? Clear or paper holders? I'm just curious as I also notice that Brinks also sells branded coins wrappers to the general public.