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Are There Any True "Never Been Opened" OBW Rolls From The 50's Or 60's Still Available?

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Are there any true "never been opened" OBW rolls from the 50's, 60's or 70's still available? I don't trust ebay but maybe from trusted dealers or forum member sales? I have enjoyed OBW roll hunting for many years and I think some in the past have been truly previously unopened, but not so much anymore IMHO.
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I'd say virtually all of these are scams. You may pay more for a roll and find some good things, but almost never will you come out even. I'd serioously avoid them.
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I've run across a few. Picked some up a while back from a coin shop owner I trust. There aren't mountains of 'em, but some can be had.
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Thanks for the input(s) !
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Gary, they're out there. I hear that estate sales can be fertile hunting grounds.
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It's possible, but on ebay, they have been often searched, rerolled, and recrimped, on the ends.
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On ebay, no.
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I marvel at the mystical ability of sellers peddling "unsearched Wheat cent rolls". If they weren't searched, how do they know that it's all wheat cents?
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Good point Hondo
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I would like to hear what tropiclebats has to say about this .I would not go to ebay or the like for unsearched rolls. Estate sales seems like the best idea, but I don't really know. Buyer beware though.
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ebay as a source is questionable. We have some ebay sellers on this forum--wonder what their take is?
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I would say the tiny minority of people who have genuinely unsearched OBW rolls and try to sell them on ebay, don't know they're supposed to use "unsearched" and "OBW" in their descriptions.

I would also think that the majority of people with a mystery roll of coins of uncertain and possibly very old provenance, would open it to search it themselves, rather than sell it as a mystery roll for potentially less money. Why go to all the trouble of allowing other people to "gamble" with your coins, when you can gamble with your own coins for free?
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Or gamble with your own coins, seal up the roll, and allow the buyer to believe they are gambling while paying you a premium. All the magic of a casino, two different ways!
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If you don't want to be disappointed virtually every time, never believe "OBW", "unsearched", "unopened", "from an estate", etc.
It has been 64 years since the last Wheat cent was minted. Even if somehow you could prove a roll was rolled, say in 1959, how does that prove it was not searched by the person doing the rolling. Coin collectors have been around for centuries.
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