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Original pre 1964 rolls.
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Those of you that collect these, how do you resist opening them? I like coins, not carboard tubes, and I don't think I could resist the temptation to open them.
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Are there any truly unopened rolls? Most dealers were/are fairly adept at opening a roll and then reclosing the end so that many will not notice. This is easier the older the roll as the paper gets looser at the end over time and makes it more difficult to be sure if the end has been opened and the roll searched or just loose from time and handling. I have some rolls that I have not opened but am not under the illusion that those rolls are likely to be true unopened unsearched rolls.
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I recently purchased an estate that included A LOT of unopened rolls, boxes and even bags of coins dated 1964 and earlier. As an example, there were 130 original BU rolls of 1955-D cents. Certainly, there was the temptation to open at least a few of them but so far, I have resisted it.
Kind of like buying these coins from the mint and keeping them boxed/unopened for the rest of their lives. RGDS!
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Oh really. Were you referring to me?
I get it, I've done it before but always flip quickly. Maybe holding on forever can/will be more profitable but for me, it would drive me nuts looking at a bunch of cardboard boxes hoping the mint didn't screw up and send me a penny instead of my super rare ultra privied gold coin. RGDS!
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I've got A LOT of those vintage rolls...an uncomfortable amount you might say.
I open them at a trickle. Need coin stuff to do when I retire. They're not going to bury them with me.
I've got older fed rolls, bank rolls, and what would be considered to be customer rolls. "Real" ones, not opened.
Honestly I do open a few a year, but also add more than a few a year lol.
I do go through them and have found plenty of varieties, errors, and fantastic condition coins to send off for grading.
I LOVE rolls.
Here is a semi full fed box at the recent Denver Coin Expo I got to check out (it had the original packing slip!). It was already sold but he showed it to me because he knows how much I love the vintage rolls
Below that are some of the rolls I bought that day
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Nice, what is your oldest vintage roll and denomination?
I’m not a flipper,(obviously). I’ve been doing this since around 1999, my thinking was at that time sending the unopened boxes to the grading companies. You had to send unopened boxes to get the attribution of the sets. But this never happened as shown. And that is only a third of what I have unopened. I guess my heirs will probably have the experience of Christmas and Hanukkah morning over and over again!
Zack
Original pre 1964 rolls
Why exclude 1964 rolls from such a discussion?
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Or post-1964 rolls. Lol. Where's cladking? Oh, talking to his Copilot mirror...
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My oldest daughter took clarinet lessons from a long retired music teacher back in the mid nineties. When I was picking her up once, I spotted a stack of old coinworld magazines, so we got to talking coins.
Trying to keep a long story short, he had an aunt at the Cleveland federal reserve, who helped him acquire rolls every year of all denominations and mm’s, STARTING BACK IN THE 1930’s! He had other sets etc in the collection, but the roll set was most impressive.
I got to see just a bit of the hoard, to appreciate it. I said if he or the heirs ever decided to sell, please let me know. We moved away and I tried to keep in contact via my sister in law, but never heard back, or what became of them.
Some nickel rolls from likely the early 1930's.
I've opened a couple and they were a mix of Buffalos and quite a few Liberty nickels.
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"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Back in the very early 1970's I had an original roll of 1899 Indian Cents and 2 half rolls of 1909 VDB Lincoln Cents. The Indians were very nice. I should have kept them.
I meant pre-clad, just a quick oversight on my part.
Could not resist opening an OBW '56 about 10 years ago.
Voila!
Keeping these '64s OBW:
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I still have some partial cent rolls from the 30’s. In tubes now. I need to send the best ones in soon. I put aside a couple of cent rolls in 1959. Sadly stored poorly at my parents’ house. The great unveiling was disappointing to say the least.
50 or so years ago it was a thrill to see the older rolls spread out on a table. Coins we never saw in unc when we were kids, let alone an entire roll. That IHC roll must have looked awesome displayed together. I wonder how many rolls of common MS buffs, mercs, and walkers are still out there.
I have nearly every date/mm of obw rolls quarters from 1942 through 1982. Additionally I have tubed uncirculated rolls of 1936 through 1942 including 1941-S choice unc quarter roll. Most of them were purchased between 1968 and 1978.
As late as 1998 I purchased nearly 150 obw wheat cent rolls from Virgil Marshall the “penny merchant” for less than $1.50 per roll and have kept them all.