What do I do? Should I Crack This Roll?

[Thogey]

I bought a pretty big lot of rolled cents last weekend and have been selling some off here. Anyway I just discovered a BWR
Labeled 'City of Phoenix Arizona Parking meters and Jonhson Fare box Company Chicago"

Someone wrote 1938-p on the outside.

One ender is tails and the other is a 1938 looks UNC but brown

Do I open the roll?

[bman]

how are your grading skills?

[Thogey]

how are your grading skills?

If you talking about dragging a gannon across the ground with a tractor I'd say average.

If you talking about determining the condition of a coin, I still have no clue.

I can tell if a coin is used or not.

[Verbane]

[Know Common Cents]

By all means open it. If not, how in the world are you going to tell us what was in there?

[twentybux]

By all means open it. If not, how in the world are you going to tell us what was in there?

Exactly!

[ScottyTX]

Unopened "original" bank rolls can bring quite a price on ebay. Usually anything in the 30's will fetch 300+ per roll. It appears though your roll might be a toss up there. I might can tell if you posted up a few pics for the side with the writing, plus the ends of the roll. I used to have a collection of OBW rolls from 1934-1958 pds. I sold them for over 10k and bought some silver around 06'.

[Thogey]

I opened the roll.

All brown circulated cents. But all 1938's

[daviscfad]

maybe they've toned?