Original BU Roll 1952-D Jefferson Nickels Nice Toning Lustrous Tough Date Roll

Original BU Roll 1952-D Jefferson Nickels Nice Toning Lustrous Tough Date Roll

 This listing is for a scarcely seen, tough date Original BU 1952-D Roll of Uncirculated Jefferson Nickels.

Beautiful subtle pastel tones on many of these coins. Greysheet Bid $125 and Ask $160. As of the time of this posting, I see only one other BU Roll of 1952-D Nickels for sale on eBay, and it is listed at just under $200. These coins are mostly brilliant with original surfaces. I didn't take a loop to all 40 coins, but the ones I did look at and looking at them all as an overview, I do not see any spotting or any other issues. This is a premium quality roll of a tough date roll of BU Jefferson Nickels.

These days so many sellers use (overuse) the term Original, Gem, from original roll. Some use these adjectives in almost every single one of their listings. By applying the term Gem to all of your listings, you are diminishing the value of gem to average or below average. It is on auto pilot in many descriptions. How can an unopened bank wrapped roll of coins be stamped as Gem if they have never been opened? What, from one end of roll coin that while toned, almost always exhibits bag marks and imperfections from being exposed?  And that's how the whole roll becomes "a gem roll"? Mind boggling that no one questions these people selling these and using these terms so liberally. I won't buy from sellers who over use these terms. How can you trust what they sell as being accurately described? Even if they offer a return privilege, no one wants that hassle. Nice to have it but it doesn't make it any less of a PITA. 
Oh - and one less piece of advice. I wouldn't buy short rolls from a seller unless you know them and trust them. If a roll is a couple coins short, did you ever ask yourself why it's short or how it became 2 or 3 coins short? They sure as heck weren't lost by the bank or spent ...  they were cherry picked and either sold separately or sent in for grading!  So that does that mean for the rest of the roll? Yup, you're right. No gems. Probably no over or trounced mint marks or errors... 

OK - I digress

When we use these terms, we do so very carefully and conservatively.  We cannot state with certainty anything is is original unless we have had sole custody of said item from inception. I look for signs of originality. Absent of any "red flags", we can assume said item is more likely than not to be original. But, we don't stop there. We ensure the edges and patina of a roll all match and appear to be consistent with being together and from the same batch before we stamp the adjective Original to any of our listings. Less than 15% of our listings have the term original in them, and for non graded coins, and less than 10% have the term gem, even though we could use both more liberally - we prefer to be conservative and would rather under use these terms than overuse them.. 

At SAM's, we use Stock Photos very infrequently. The coin in the photos is the exact coin you will receive.