Wilmingtonsilver
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I have been watching the discussions on marking or painting coins on this board. Sometimes they have become a bit heated. The reason often giving for marking a coin is to track to see if they are getting the same batch back. Here is the flaw in that idea. At best you can only be sure that you are getting that exact coin back. You can't be sure that the rest of the roll and really can't be sure that the rest of the box comes from the same batch. The reason for this is in the way the bank has to sell back the coins to the rolling companies, and that is loose in a bag. The banks do not return wrapped rolls to the companies. They have to break those rolls open and fill up coin bags themselves, before they turn them into the rolling companies. I actually saw this with my own eyes last week at my dump bank. The only reason your bank would want you to roll the coins before you bring them in, is for easy counting. So once the coins leave the bank, loose in a bag, I am sure that once they get to the plant at the rolling company they are dumped into a large hopper to be re-wrapped. At best you could only track 1 coin for a region. So even if you get the same coin back, there is just as good of a chance of having the rest of the box be completely un-searched before.
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