I bought a couple cheap rolls of Wheats from a very well-known "unsearched roll" scammer many years ago purely to see if they were as bad as the horror stories would suggest.
They were, in fact, that bad. I think I paid less than $5 for each of the two rolls and probably lost $4 on each.
Be especially wary of any rolls that have different end coins, like "roll of
Indian Head cents with a 3 cent nickel end coin" etc, those are 100% scams
There are also a lot of fake "uncirculated bank wrapped"
Morgan dollar rolls that sometimes bring shocking money which are basically seeded with common date mid-grade Unc coins. That's when you learn that being in an original bank wrapper doesn't mean they were originally wrapped at a bank.
IMO if you want to toss a few bucks at them just for fun, no harm no foul, but don't go expecting to find 1909-S VDB's in that random $3 roll of "unsearched" wheat cents.
I saw a particularly hilarious one a couple months ago that was advertised as an "unsearched roll of nice 1860s and 1870s
Indian Head cents" or something like that. cue facepalm. Seller had quite a few different rolls listed, including things like "Guaranteed that all coins will grade at least VF20." (!)
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