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Ever find a gold coin while roll searching?

Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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If not then heres your chanceEbay auction link.

Three coins visible from a single shotgun roll. One coin being gold, one silver and one brass. Still listed as wheat/indian cent roll. Something smells fishy here...

Currently at 66 views and $310. It will be interesting to see where bidding ends for this one.

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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of the stranger roll listings I have ever seen.
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WE WILL ACCEPT RETURNS ONLY IF THE ROLL OR ROLLS ARE UNOPENED.


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  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like there COULD be a 185x dollar gold coin behind that token, but I would rather bid on a gold coin that I know actually is a gold coin.
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My guess, the "roll" contains one subway token, one cull seated dime, one severely damaged gold dollar, a few low grade indian cents, and the rest common wheaties.

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  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good thing they don't use shill bidders! image
  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My guess, the "roll" contains one subway token, one cull seated dime, one severely damaged gold dollar, a few low grade indian cents, and the rest common wheaties. >>



    My thoughts exactly!
  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My guess, the "roll" contains one subway token, one cull seated dime, one severely damaged gold dollar, a few low grade indian cents, and the rest common wheaties. >>



    Maybe the "gold coin" is one of those plated Indian cents you used to see a lot in jewelry.

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  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    People are SO stupid, it's not even funny. How does this guy even KNOW there's Indian and/or wheat pennies inside if he hasn't searched them??




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  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Up to 105 views nowimage
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,783 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Heck that token in brass might be the pick of the litter. I thought they were only made in
    nickel. It might be unique!

    bobimage
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  • GManGMan Posts: 790 ✭✭
    Well it's obviously a gold dollar under that token. Could be counterfeit who knows. Interesting but what would make anyone bid so much is beyond me.

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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My most exotic find was when I found a 3 Cent Nickel in F 12 or F 15 while going through a friend's roll of Mercury Dimes.
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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭


    << <i>People are SO stupid, it's not even funny. How does this guy even KNOW there's Indian and/or wheat pennies inside if he hasn't searched them??




    -Paul >>



    Amazing feedback , it's difficult under even ideal circumstance to keep as many ebayers satisfied , but this seller makes it look like a walk in the park.
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,577 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ah, just a little bit of math and a scale will tell you if this roll is worth keeping without even opening it.
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  • TheBigBTheBigB Posts: 942 ✭
    This looks like a classic so-called unsearched roll, but I though lotteries were illegal on ebay.
  • VMRCCVMRCC Posts: 79
    "WE DO NOT MAKE CLAIMS THAT YOU WILL FIND A 1909 S V.D.B.{ALTHOUGH 1 WAS FOUND ON MAY 5TH 2010}"

    Fantastic!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,238 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since you asked, I never found a gold coin in a roll.image

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  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Since you asked, I never found a gold coin in a roll.image >>



    You're not alone, neither have I.image
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    I actually found some coins in my pocket once!
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Found a stack of 5 gold eagles in a cent roll once.
    Then the alarm went off.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    I rthought that every crazy thing that could happen to me has happened. But no, I have never found a gold coin in a roll.
    About 1947 when I was 12 years old, the local savings bank phoned me and said somebody just turned in a five dollar gold piece and did I want it. I took it and still have it.
  • bigjpstbigjpst Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Man it sure is a good thing that token has a hole in the center, otherwise the seller may have sold his unsearched roll too cheap.image
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  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932


    << <i>Looks like there COULD be a 185x dollar gold coin behind that token, but I would rather bid on a gold coin that I know actually is a gold coin. >>



    I think you're right. Looks like an 185x $1 Liberty Head Type 1 circulated. But unless it has a mint mark,it is nowhere near the value of the current bid.
  • MizzouMizzou Posts: 515 ✭✭✭✭
    Toolhaus.org tells the story -



    Not unhappy but won't try it again Buyer:
    Member id chesmee ( Feedback Score Of 160Teal star icon for feedback score in between 100 to 499)
    Mar-17-11 17:55
    UNSEARCHED ROLL OF WHEAT/INDIAN HEAD PENNIES LOT H 216 (#190493180439) US $21.59
    Neutral feedback rating ok rolls but I don't know about being unsearched Buyer:
    Member id z-bolt ( Feedback Score Of 407Teal star icon for feedback score in between 100 to 499)
    Feb-02-11 17:49
    UNSEARCHED ROLL OF WHEAT/INDIAN HEAD PENNIES LOT H 207 (#200566970148) US $93.77
    Negative feedback rating DID YOU INHERIT A NON-STOP SUPPLY OF ROLLS ALL WITH BETTER END COINS?SCAMMER! Buyer:
    Member id michaelt6290 ( Feedback Score Of 5808Green star icon for feedback score in between 5,000 to 9,999)
    Dec-25-10 20:31


    Follow-up by michaelt6290 (Dec-25-10 20:45):
    BANK MACHINE CAN'T MIX DIMES & CIVIL WAR TOKENS IN PENNY ROLLS!LIAR AND THIEF!
    Reply by lesascoinshop (Dec-25-10 21:51):
    NEVER OPENED ROLLS WANTED FREE ONES,READ HIS FB, RUDE AND A LIAR BAD 4 EBAY

    UNSEARCHED ROLL OF WHEAT/INDIAN HEAD PENNIES LOT F 996 (#200553229747) US $66.01
    Negative feedback rating CAUTION! RIPS PEOPLE THAT DOESNT KNOW THE ENDS CAN BE UNROLLED! RETALIATES LOOK! Buyer:
    Member id michaelt6290 ( Feedback Score Of 5808Green star icon for feedback score in between 5,000 to 9,999)
    Dec-25-10 13:50


    Follow-up by michaelt6290 (Dec-25-10 15:05):
    REALLY WHAT COLLECTOR OF 35YRS WOULD SELL WITHOUT CHECKING?SEE ROLL PINCHED ENDS
    Reply by lesascoinshop (Dec-25-10 16:30):
    NEVER OPENED ROLLS WANTED FREE ONES,READ HIS FB, RUDE AND A LIAR BAD 4 EBAY

    UNSEARCHED ROLL OF WHEAT/INDIAN HEAD PENNIES LOT F 997 (#190478384255) US $77.77
    Negative feedback rating ENDS UNROLLED/BEST COIN ON END SCAM & SHILL BIDS!RETALIATES=BID ON CUSTOMER ITEM Buyer:
    Member id michaelt6290 ( Feedback Score Of 5808Green star icon for feedback score in between 5,000 to 9,999)
    Dec-25-10 09:50


    Reply by lesascoinshop (Dec-25-10 12:48):
    BUYER IS A LIER, WANTED FREE ROLLS,TRIED FEEDBACK EXTORTION AN LOST READ HIS FB!
    Follow-up by michaelt6290 (Dec-25-10 13:42):
    YOUR THE "LIAR" MADE UP COMMENT TO CAST DOUBT.WHAT ABOUT YOUR SCAM&SHILLING!!

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  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486 ✭
    That role is a creationimage
  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    must be nice

    only time i've found a gold coin is while LOOKING for a gold coin ><
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  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    You do not want to deal with this seller ever! I just sent him an honest question asking if it would be possible to post a picture of the trunk that he supposedly got all these unsearched rolls from. He sent back 2 emails,first saying it was a "bizarre question". Then sent me a 2nd email with the most paranoid defensive language that I have ever gotten from anybody on the entire internet.Needless to say he never sent me a picture of the trunk. Gee whiz,I wonder why! I responded that he would never have to worry about hearing from me again.
  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No trunk photo... I wonder whyimage Does not sound like a person I would want to deal with.

    211 views... Lots of activity. I wonder if he is now "finding" more similar rolls in his inherited trunkimage
  • coinman23885coinman23885 Posts: 1,126


    << <i>People are SO stupid, it's not even funny. How does this guy even KNOW there's Indian and/or wheat pennies inside if he hasn't searched them??

    -Paul >>



    This is the first thing that came to my mind. If they are truly unsearched, then the rolls could contain modern circulated copper plated zinc Lincoln Memorial Cents that are effectively worthless.
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>My most exotic find was when I found a 3 Cent Nickel in F 12 or F 15 while going through a friend's roll of Mercury Dimes. >>



    I got a 3 Cent Nickel in change in the 70s, it was passed as a dime at some point and then was passed to me as a dime.
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
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    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A bit of lint in the naval is the most i found searching a roll.
    image
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zero interest
    LCoopie = Les
  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    DID YOU INHERIT A NON-STOP SUPPLY OF ROLLS ALL WITH BETTER END COINS?

    REALLY WHAT COLLECTOR OF 35YRS WOULD SELL WITHOUT CHECKING?SEE ROLL PINCHED ENDS


    image

    I suspect that the odds of finding a one dollar gold piece behind a see through token in a roll of unsearched pennies are far greater than finding a 1909SVDB in BU with a bunch of '40's and '50's wheaties as the other 49 coins.

    Think about it.Would a collector not open this roll and leave it "unsearched" so they can sell it on ebay for big money?

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,424 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Since you asked, I never found a gold coin in a roll.image >>

    it would be nice but then maybe its just as well to image
  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
    I enjoy seeing auctions like this one. Even more, I enjoy reading the FB from stupid moronic dumb bass buyers that think they're going to get a bargain/get one over on the seller.

    In situations such as this one, no buyer protection should be available. Rather, a required course for buyers of merchandise like this, that complain they have been wronged, on How Not to be an Idiot.

    Edited to add:

    No, I have not found a gold coin while roll searching. image

    Dan
  • nibannynibanny Posts: 2,761 ✭


    << <i>You do not want to deal with this seller ever! I just sent him an honest question asking if it would be possible to post a picture of the trunk that he supposedly got all these unsearched rolls from. He sent back 2 emails,first saying it was a "bizarre question". Then sent me a 2nd email with the most paranoid defensive language that I have ever gotten from anybody on the entire internet.Needless to say he never sent me a picture of the trunk. Gee whiz,I wonder why! I responded that he would never have to worry about hearing from me again. >>




    He is showing the trunk now!
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  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>You do not want to deal with this seller ever! I just sent him an honest question asking if it would be possible to post a picture of the trunk that he supposedly got all these unsearched rolls from. He sent back 2 emails,first saying it was a "bizarre question". Then sent me a 2nd email with the most paranoid defensive language that I have ever gotten from anybody on the entire internet.Needless to say he never sent me a picture of the trunk. Gee whiz,I wonder why! I responded that he would never have to worry about hearing from me again. >>




    He is showing the trunk now! >>



    Cool Trunk... I wonder how much it weighs when full of cent rollsimage
  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ended at $470.85 and 396 views.

  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $470.85 ???????????????? Who is the fool? The seller knows exactly what is in the roll. I find it hard to digest that someone would actually buy these things at alll, let alone throw away $470.85 on a roll that is probably worth $15. Totally amazing.
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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You can make your own shotgun rolls with this, so those rolls could have been made yesterday or today. You can no longer trust shotgun rolls to be bank wrapped.

    Bob
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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    I never ceased to be amazed by some people's stupidity / greed / naivete.
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