Wheat Cent Rolls On Ebay. Do Any Of You Buy Them?

This topic has come up several times before. I suggest that you do a topic search and you can get a lot of valuable opinions.

As I recall, opinions were very mixed, but everyone agreed that there is no such thing as unsearched rolls.

I'd also avoid the ones with the silver dime on the end, they pretend they found this roll in an old hoard and its never been searched, and by golly there is even an accidental Barber dime or Indian Head cent at the end of the roll......who knows what other treasure lies within!!?

I guess it'd be like playing a scratch off ticket. But at least there is a legit chance of hitting the jackpot on the scratch off.....slim as it may be.

Yeah I had to live and learn from this like I do everything I bought 2 both ends were pretty tight and had teens on both ends I ended up with 6 teens 2 twenties 4 thirties and the rest were forties and fifties not worth it all I found was a 1917 lamination error and that 1945 very minor clip so nothing really so don't get suckered into it not worth it

Yeah, never ever buy anything with a silver dime on the end. When these rolls were "originally bank wrapped" in the "thirties and forties" it was mostly done by hand. The only reason dimes get into penny rolls today is because an auto-sorter that sorts thousands of coins a day slipped up.

I, before joining this forum, spent about $25 on these scams and had a few notable mistakes:
I got a roll that was "capped with two dimes" and searched through it, then counted my total # of coins, only to find the total to be 52, instead of 50.
I got another roll from a different seller that contained a 1960 Memorial penny, despite being advertised as "kept in a bank vault since 1950"

Might as well get one, it'll bug the crap outta ya until ya do. Anyone here that tells you different has 95% chance of having tried one themselves! Go ahead, get it outta yqer system, then come back and join the club of "Don't Do Its"! like the rest of us...

Consider it a right of passage of sorts to to buy an "unsearched roll" from ebay.

As crazy said "it'll bug the crap outta ya until ya do"

What about the rolls on ebay that appear to have been sealed on the ends with some sort of machine (the ends of the roll look rolled over), are they legitimate unsearched rolls? I saw some the other day that were supposedly uncirculated bank rolls from the 40's.

nickelsearcher,

I don't plan on buying them. I should have asked the question differently I guess, which is, how do the rolls get those crimped ends on them which don't look like hand rolled coin?