Wheat Cents, OBW With Foil - How Does That Happen?

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What's printed on the wrapper isn't always correct for the coins. Anyone with a good roll crimper can make a recently wrapped roll look just about any age, and you can have anything you want cut into a rubber stamp. It's really hard to tell if a roll is original or fantasy these days.

Oklahoma City Federal Reserve?



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Got it, thanks. KC Fed.

They're wrapped... Can't remove the foil without tearing it.

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I've seen foil wrappers before, although not "bank wrapped", the basic fold-over ones. Probably a wrapper producing company's sales pitch that the foil prevents toning. From my experience the foil actually held up and prevented toning, although I have only small time experience.

I don't think those rolls are original bank wrapped.

Because foil has not been a common practice for a long time, these were probably wrapped a while ago.

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Wow. I'm as old as Methuselah, and I don't remember seeing rewrapping with aluminum foil. I remember it with wax paper, but not foil. Interesting find!

In all my years of roll hunting (across several decades), I've come across two foil wrapped cent rolls--they appeared to be hand-wrapped, not part of the original commercial coin-wrapping process.