Does This Original Bank Roll Of Nickels Look Unopened/Legitimate?

The wrapping machines, roll paper, and stamps are easy to get and not terribly expensive.

Having listened to hundreds of sad tales about the content of supposed unopened rolls, I simply believe all rolls and bags have been examined.

Ill be right far more times than I'm wrong.

Let us know. I sincerely hope you get an MS-67 FS.

aristarchus- that was probably done by the seller, which does not necessarily mean that it was searched.

Let us know what you find!

It looks original to me.

But even original rolls can be checked. Usually when these are found there are substantial numbers of the same date. All you have to do is check a few rolls for varieties and Gems and if there are none you can be pretty sure there aren't any in the other rolls either.

All you guys know a lot more about grading than I do but, disregarding the toning, does that look like an uncirculated coin or is the glare fooling me?

I agree with moxking. I think that most if not all rolls have been looked through. Motivated sellers can turn anything like rewrapping into an art form. However, every collector/dealer looks for different things. I find when I buy rolls (only when a good deal never about how the roll looks) there's never those key dates but I almost always find an error of some sort.

If ... this is an untampered with, original BU roll, which I cannot say, the reason it would interest me is the possibility of steps.
That would be the reason for me to buy an original bank roll of 40 uncirculated 1953 S Jeffersons.
The odds of finding a full 5 step 1953 S are 1 in 5000 coins.
Mathematically, getting 40 coins, reduces the odds to 1 in 125. However, I would want to see an image of the other end of the roll.
Chances are, your nickels will all look like these inside.





If you see the other end image and it happens to show a reverse with the basically the same toning as the one shown in the first post here, that would help a lot.
If that coin looks anything like the typical images I posted here of typical 1953 S reverses, they will all probably look like that.
Even legitimate unc roll sellers know that if they have several rolls from the same source, lets say, these 1953 S
American Trust Bank of San Francisco rolls, opening one roll will tell you what the rest of the rolls will look like inside.
They came from the same production run at the mint.

A savvy seller can open one roll, know what to expect in his other 5 or 10 he might have and honestly sell them as an unsearched "uncirculated roll" but already have a real good idea of what the rest look like inside.

If you get an image of the other end, and it has any trace of steps on the end coin and it is showing the reverse, the odds go up some. If it looks like one in the images I show, the odds increase a lot more than 1 in 125 that they are all duds regarding steps. A LOT!

But, any 1953 S with just a couple steps to a few is still a great find as they are quite scarce as well.