Do Any / Many OBW Rolls Or Original Mint Bags Of Morgans Really Exist?

In my opinion I believe that is possible .There's got to be many strays out there owned by Grandfathers or great Grandfathers hand-me downs . And then there are ,I'm sure original or close to original bags buried some where out West by outlaws from the late 1800's .
And don't forget the ultra high end coin dealers who have million $ +inventories .

Thanks for the input. I'd like to find a bag of 1884-S someplace. ( Actually just one mint state item would suffice) I was just reading in the Bowers Morgan Guide Book that someone sold a roll of them for $450 in 1964. Wow!

Very nice!

I doubt very seriously if ORIGINAL rolls and bags still surface in quantity like they did back 40 and 50 years ago. Third party grading has since gobbled most of those coins all up. There will still be occasional original rolls of "common" dates show up but not many. The last good rolls I got was a an 83-CC and 1900-S back about 1990 when I was living in California. They were not cheap, either.

The stuff you see on ebay is all from "marketing 101" and is a "packaging and presentation" gimmick. The dealer that stands out to me is one in Colorado that seems to do this A LOT with his listings. Seems to use the same background $1000 bag picture in all his listings. I think he jacks with his coin pictures too, as the coins all seem to have the same "flash". Evidently he is a good marketing business man.

Gotta do what cha gotta do but it all eventually catches up with you.

Consider this:

Suppose you've got an "original wrapped roll" of silver dollars. allegedly never been opened. Or a canvas bag, likewise.

How on earth do you know that it's a roll or bag full of Morgan dollars? Logically, if it's never been opened, there could be anything in there; it could be a bag full of Ikes, as far as anybody could tell. For a roll, you might be able to read a date on one end or the other, but there's no way to guarantee all the other coins in between, if they've never been seen. But if they're confident that they're all Morgans, then the only way they can generate such confidence is if they'd opened it up and looked. And if they did open up and look, there's no way they'd have just looked at every coin, said "yep, they're all Morgans, sure enough", and then put everything straight back in the bag again, unfiltered. No, they'd swap out anything they found that was actually rare or valuable, like a CC Morgan.

Secondly, I don't understand the logic of someone selling an unopened, unsearched roll or bag of coins. It really doesn't take all that much time and effort to open it up and have a look at what's in it. Why would somebody, anybody, not do that, especially when they surely know that the potential reward for doing so is the possibility of finding a coin valuable enough to buy a new car, or a down-payment on a house? It's kind of like selling off an unopened Christmas present when you don't know whether it contains a worthless trinket or a diamond ring.

TLDR: yes, in theory, "unsearched rolls and bags" exist, and they might get sold by people. But they are being sold by people who don't know how special something genuinely "unsearched" would be, so they aren't using that word "unsearched" in their sales. Assume everyone using that word on ebay etc is speaking less than the literal truth.

The mint sewn bags would have the date and mint printed on the bag ,denomination and maybe the bank where it came from . Probably the same for OBW rolls of Morgan dollars .

Thanks Fenton.

In 1964 I was 12 years old. I'd often get Walker halves as part payment for mowing lawns or washing cars. All circulated but I have no idea what dates I was handling.I would also occasionally get a silver dollar. Just imagine all the candy I could have bought with one of those Treasury bags of dollars! :-)