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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 792871, member: 16510&quot;]<b>They are still around but not much, and the dates your likley to find</b></p><p><br /></p><p>They are still around but not much, and the dates your likley to find are the ones nobody wanted like 1961-P, 63-P 74-P - the ones with few doubled dies in them.</p><p>People who knew bank workers bought these (from the bank) as they were never avalible from the mint directly to private individuals.</p><p>They are no longer availble at all since they went to the monster bags weighing tons.</p><p>I have searched several bags such as 1983-P, 1963-D, 1972-P, 60-D, many others.&nbsp; The bags from the mint were $50 contents, sewn across the top and said U.S. mint, the year and mint on them in black lettering.&nbsp; There were also private banks that rolled thier own and then put 100 rolls in a bank logo bag with a lead seal on the top.</p><p>There was a man named Kramer that used to advertise in Coin World that sold bags and rolls but he has since passed on.&nbsp; His wife then sold all his stuff.&nbsp; I bought a bunch and she, and him were very nice people.</p><p>Like I said you&#039;ll find a few here and there but for those dates I mentioned I would never even pay double face value because I have searched these and there just not that much in the more common bags.&nbsp; That plus they are a job to search - 5000 of the same thing over and over and if you don&#039;t find something in the first 200 your not very likley to find anything in the remaining 4800, it&#039;s a job.&nbsp; Don&#039;t think your going to find any MS-68 coins in there either, they just aren&#039;t there folks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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