Old Rolls Of Coins Expectations

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Where from, eww-boy? It is well known shysters put one "ender" nice tempter on rolls of common date coins. This is a buyer beware. Unless you know the back story 100% truthful, its chancy. I've bought (for a premium, once)rolls marked "old" from online auctions that were said to be "deposit box" rolls, only to find junk inside. Never have tried the ender rolls, that's asking for it.

Used to buy bulk wheat cents(1000 count). I thought I'd finally found a seller with some truly " unsearched" coins after finding out how he acquired them. Supposedly he bought them from his customers at craft shows for his other non related products. Took a chance, 1st batch was a treasure trove, 53% were pre 1940, with 3-1909vdb's even. Jumped big again, got dealer dumps of 94% commons, what a sucker I was!

Well when you consider that probably close to 90% of all wheat cents were struck in the 40's and 50's and the fact that most wheat hoards were probably accumulated in the 50's. 60's. and 70's, you should expect any random unpicked lot of Wheat cent to be 90%+ commons from the 40's and 50's.

Conder101, agree, most of my bulk purchases were in the 10-17% range of pre 1940's, just that the above mistake was by far the worst. Even my LCS's batch of 500 had 11% pre40's! Now this was over a year ago, market probably isn't any better now, altho, I am selling some on the forum, check them out, selling guaranteed 20%/80% mix!