Question About Buying Mint Rolls Of Coins.

Like is there a certain wrapper that only the mint uses so we can tell? I thought nf string was mint sets because that's what everyone advertises, but I realized anyone can buy nf string wrappers.

True, there is no difference between the coins whatsoever, but like it or not, there ARE many many ULTRA Modern collectors who do place a value on the "special U.S. Mint paper" wrapped rolls specifically, over regular "bank wrapped/ or Fed. Resv. String and Sons.
The Mint certainly charges a big premium for a P&D roll set of anything...so in that sense alone, maybe it's deserving too ! Because they do COST MORE !
Wrongly or rightly, there just IS a realized premium difference recognized by quite a few folks nowadays.

I also think, that because of the relatively new "roll collecting" phenomena with Mint products/issues, in the last ten years or so, that it has made this, kind of a new form of collecting, that didn't used to be anywhere near as prevalent as it is now.
The option to even have these, just wasn't ever available before the millenium.
Because of their price, they are also more likely never to be opened....and they'll be sealed and kept as such for infinity, whereas "bank wrapped rolls" and their like could be opened and gone through at any time because they can be had for "face value".
Could be appealing to "error hunters" at some future point too, or just collectors wanting to cull for BU's. Or just plumb "roll collectors" who prefer these and want them.
Roll collecting is changing now too from what it once was. It's still in it's infancy I believe, but it's a lot different than "the old days".

Okay, so if you collect the paper - knock yourself out. But there seems to be a preconceived notion that buying mint wrappers will yield better quality coins. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and that's what I was commenting about.

You don't 100% know. Just buy from highly rated sellers who have been doing it for a good amount of time. They will have sources that get full boxes of Pennys, nickles, dimes and so on that are all BU coin rolls. If a full (unopened) box of coins has BU coins on each end of every roll you can be sure the whole roll is BU. (plus some boxes are stamped from the fed reserve I think) A good ebay seller who sells rolls frequently is not going to mess with their feedback rating by selling mixed rolls. They will have a good amount of assurance that their source is legit enough to market BU Rolls.

I must admit that I am a roll collector. I love original rolls. I have never opened any, and probably never will. Can you imagine opening a roll from the 1970's in say 2041?

i want to buy rolls and save them, maybe for when I pass them to my kids. thats how things get valuable. parents and grandparents keep passing on their collections.

People are going to be amazed how scarce most modern rolls are. Collectors simply stopped saving them in 1965. More precisely they scaled way back in 1965 and scaled back further yet in '67, '68 and '69 until it came to a virtual halt. Even though very few '65 rolls were set aside a large percentage of them were later released because there was no interest in thm over the years.

Other than most cent dates, a few nickels, bicntennials, and most of the states issues finding rolls after 1965 is very difficult. Some dates like '69-P quarters are very scarce.

Most will shrug and say "so what" but they forget that not all moderns appear in mint sets and that not all coins that appear in mint sets are easy to find as gems. Many dates and most varities just don't exist in the mint sets and can be rare or even non-existent in rolls. Choice and gem coins from the Satin Finish mint set years will be scarce for the main part other than quarters and halfs. Some of these will be tough. Just finding "common coins" like a gemmy '79-S SBA will be a challenge if more than a handfull ever seek one. There is no depth to the supply of most moderns and the attrition is still extremely high. It just wouldn't be unusual for someone seeking a '79-D type "d" reverse quarter to locate a roll and spend all the coins that weren't keepers. It's not unusual to find whole rolls with no keepers.

Circulation just keeps grinding coins away. It doesn't matter how a clad quarter gets into circulation. If someone accidently loses track of a very rare '72-D DDR quarter it will get worn away in circulation and no oni is likely to ever find it because there are so few looking. If a 1916 quarter accidently gets into circulation the very first person it finds will probably save it. Until people start appreciating these coins more there will be about a 3% annual attrition. Even though something like a BU 1971 dime is scarcer than a BU '50-D nickel there are 3% fewer of the dime each year and the number of nickels just drops a little.

My point precisely with the "Official U.S. Mint PAPER" ! That's how you actually DO know exactly what's in there ! ....
Machine wrapped/bank wrapped rolls....that's right....you never REALLY know what's in there ! .....
And the Two Roll Sets with Official U.S. Mint paper will get you BOTH mints, which no one can do from their banks, at face value or any other value. And this is pretty important too for those with this as their only option to do so.

For the record......I'm not paying for any "paper" either (except for a couple items each year).....I just "see the other side", and don't disagree with the theory behind pursuing it if one has the extra money. I do not agree that it is folly or a waste of money or a bad decision in coin collecting.