I Received 10 Bank Rolled 1990 Canadian Pennies On My Last Run Through Town.

Is it possible to get rolls graded?

Probably to many variables with not seeing all the coins. and these have no marks, just vacuum wrapped, but in line with other Canadian bank rolls.

Do you mean all 50 coins in the roll? Why?

@Smallcentguy

Besides the end coins, and a few small spots where I suspect some air perferated the roll I would guess out of the 10 rolls I have maybe 50 of the 500 would have any sort of "damage". unless there is stuff goin on between the cents that I cannot see of course which is completely possible.

Not at all arguing with you, lol I am sooo new to this, just gathering info. But would I not expect more than one or two? By my very laypers veiw they mostly appear in immaculate condition.

And yeah, totally cool with the selling rules. I will not be selling anything until I get all my ducks in a row.

I have a good line on coins, I have picked up a few hundred dollars worth already. and a shop owner here has been collecting from our banks since Canada stopped making pennies. I know he has a bit of a pile. just have to work out how to sweet talk him. He is a really cool dude, and collect the coolest stuff, so its just neat chatting to him.
But I have a ton of coins to go thru before I am selling.

I do have a couple of these on auction on ( well the big selling site we all love) to test the market a bit, and maybe add to the hobby fund.

I'll be happy when I get my scope and can take proper photos and start really looking for errors and such. It is such a zen hobby.

Your rolls look very typical.

The fact you have unopened rolls does not mean you have great quality coins inside. They will have "bag" marks from being processed at the mint. They may have oil residue or carbon spots. What you need to find is a coin that got through the mint without any bag marks or other flaws. This is like looking a needle in haystack even when starting with rolls like these.

I have gone through 100s in the pandemic. Most of the rolls I open end up as junk which I try to resell for $1 or so.

Out of 10 rolls or 500 coins, you might if you are lucky get a single MS67 by PCGS standards. You more likely will get none, as none have been found so far and no doubt 100s or thousands of 1990 rolls have been searched.

You might get 10 ICCS MS66s, but you might send in 30 coins to ICCS to get them at a cost of $500, so that is still a money losing proposition.

Rolls are not scarce per se. They are only scarce in large quantities at close to face value.

Great thinking on that, I may need to do a little exploratory surgery on one of the more damaged roles.

Before I do so, any tips, pointers, stuff I might not know to do or not do?

I'll post a video when I do it.

You have to understand that what you are looking for is perfection. A visibly 100% red cent is not by any means perfect.

You will need to get a decent quality loupe. The grading standard is I think 10x but I use a stronger one because I want to ensure that I catch any defects that are even close.

The hard part that, frankly, you will have no real hope of succeeding at, is that you have to understand from a long history of reviewing and submitting cents for holdering what exactly is likely to be a MS64 vs MS65 vs MS66 vs MS67. If you use a strong enough loupe all coins will have some sort of marks. So the key is to understand just what passes muster and what does not.

If you want to go down this path, I would open one roll, very carefully sort through, and submit the best one to ICCS for grading which will cost you like $25 or something like that. But then you will know where you stand before you go further.

When you open the roll, you must open and remove the coins one by one. This is painstaking. If you open it all at once and spill it on the table, you have likely pretty much wrecked whatever you had before you started.

"You have to understand that what you are looking for is perfection. A visibly 100% red cent is not by any means perfect.

You will need to get a decent quality loupe. ........................................................................ This is painstaking. If you open it all at once and spill it on the table, you have likely pretty much wrecked whatever you had before you started."

Thank you for the feedback. I have a decent usb scope on the way, today fingers crossed, I have surgical like reflexes from many different hobbies from the past. lol I hope, 3d printing, prop making, etc....

I have a set of silicone covered tweezers I made by dipping in silicone so I can pick pennies, and I glove up after few choice words from a member of another forum. lol

Would the environment effect this? more than likely I would imagine. I live in a rain forest, things rust in days, usually sub par metals, but still.

So would cranking the heat up and drying out the room a bit be helpful or harmful? I would assume helpful.

I'll only be doing this when I get my set up complete.