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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 146076, member: 4626&quot;]About the only time I find it worth it to get grab bags is when I&#039;m trying to find a wide variety of older, but common, dates to fill up series that are nearly impossible to fill from circulation, such as older wheat cents, mercury dimes, etc.&nbsp; For that purpose grab bags are actually a better deal than buying the coins individually.&nbsp; Just don&#039;t expect any rare dates, if you find any at all it will be a very rare occurence.&nbsp; I expect grab bag sellers probably intentionally salt their grab bags with an ocassional rarity to generate positive feedback, excitement over the possiblity of finding a rare, make it more believable that it&#039;s unsearched, etc.&nbsp; It would be insane to sell a lot of truly unsearched coins if there&#039;s any chance of something valuable being inside them.&nbsp; If I found a barrel of wheat cents, I&#039;d be looking at every one of them.&nbsp; Don&#039;t believe people who say they don&#039;t have time to search them... if there&#039;s the slightest chanve of something valuable being in that barrel, believe me, they&#039;ll find the time to look for it, lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you&#039;re just trying to find common coins to fill a series folder or type set, they&#039;re not a bad deal for that.&nbsp; Just realize what you&#039;re really getting before you bid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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