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Posted 01/05/2020 9:27 pm
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FWIW, I don't believe there is any such thing as an actual OBW roll of 1958, 1969-S, or 1972 cents. There is simply too much upside for people to crack and re-wrap. Ditto for purported mint bags of these dates.
Crimpers are available for under $30, and look-alike cent wrappers are also readily available. Banks haven't wrapped coins for over 15 years (all that is done by armored carriers now), and commercially wrapped rolls almost always have the name of the armored carrier today. The FRB of St. Louis and American Bankers Association standardization of denominational wrapper colors occurred in 1965. For pre-1965 cent rolls, a variety of colors were in use, and many (most?) legitimate rolls would have been rubber-stamped with the bank name. Especially for 1950s and earlier cents, red-color crimped rolls would have been far less common than what appears online, and most of those wrappers would have faded to dusty brown by now. Mint bags easily can be re-sealed by anyone with access to a commercial sewing machine.
The only commonly found verifiable OBW cent rolls are the high mintage coins with no meaningful varieties from the 1970s and 1980s. These exist in abundance and rarely appear online, because the shipping cost exceeds value.
</cynicism alert>
FWIW, I don't believe there is any such thing as an actual OBW roll of 1958, 1969-S, or 1972 cents. There is simply too much upside for people to crack and re-wrap. Ditto for purported mint bags of these dates.
Crimpers are available for under $30, and look-alike cent wrappers are also readily available. Banks haven't wrapped coins for over 15 years (all that is done by armored carriers now), and commercially wrapped rolls almost always have the name of the armored carrier today. The FRB of St. Louis and American Bankers Association standardization of denominational wrapper colors occurred in 1965. For pre-1965 cent rolls, a variety of colors were in use, and many (most?) legitimate rolls would have been rubber-stamped with the bank name. Especially for 1950s and earlier cents, red-color crimped rolls would have been far less common than what appears online, and most of those wrappers would have faded to dusty brown by now. Mint bags easily can be re-sealed by anyone with access to a commercial sewing machine.
The only commonly found verifiable OBW cent rolls are the high mintage coins with no meaningful varieties from the 1970s and 1980s. These exist in abundance and rarely appear online, because the shipping cost exceeds value.
</cynicism alert>
