Today's goody, something only MS Kennedy guys would love.

DHeath

Today the mailman brought me something I figure to put away and auction in 2030. It's a nice original bankwrapped roll of 83-D halves. Since they don't show up very often anymore, I figured it would be worth a post. The end reverse is very nice, and is pretty well struck. I wish I'd have saved a few rolls then.

LanLord

Impressive, I'd love to see it's three sisters (82p, 83d and 83d)

Russ

Open it!

Russ, NCNE

DHeath

LOL.....no! There are plenty of 83-D Kennedys. There are not plenty of unopened rolls.

ursabear

Cool!

Keep it like it is. A nice find, indeed Mr. Heath!

cladking

Looks like a nice roll. There won't be many of these in thirty years. There aren't all that many now.

Cam40

wow, now thats a cool roll to have.
lets guess what a roll like that would be worth to
a collector in 30 years, all things being equal,.....
$25,000......

ksteelheader

Opem that sucka!!!..

ms70

You're right. Only MS Kennedy guys love this thread.

fcloud

Sometimes when you open them you find the only coin in the roll that is the date the roll is supposed to be in only the coin on the end!

I purchased a roll of 1965 quarters only to find out that the roll was bank wrapped about 1967 and about 75% of the roll was silver quarters.

cladking

There's unlikely to be a huge premium even in thirty years. It's entirely possible that
there will be collectors for original rolls which would give this a substantial premium, but
more typically rolls and sets are ultimately valued by the coins they contain. While a few
gems would give this roll a premium it seem unlikely that the paper wrapper will.

Of course, the paper wrapper will make it a million dollars worth of cool.

DHeath

CK, exactly.

DanArgent

So maby I should buy some of the $200 dollars worth of ms bankrolled halves from 95 that are sitting in the vault for face value.

Dan

coinguy89

I would be quite tempted to open it up.

cladking

<< <i>So maby I should buy some of the $200 dollars worth of ms bankrolled halves from 95 that are sitting in the vault for face value.

Dan >>



'95 should be a good date but the price guides indicate that it's a common roll. There were
very few mint sets in '95 and these are the major competition for rolls of moderns. It would
appear that what happened was that there were still very substantial numbers of these in Fed
storage when people finally started getting interested in moderns. This led to large numbers
being set aside.

If memory serves the '92 and earlier were almost all gone when the states issues came out so
it might be better to pay a little premium to get a roll that can't be too common. '91-D is a bear,
but some of these aren't very expensive.