Need To Let Off Steam! 1970 Washington. AU-50

John I disagree. Maybe they will profile me, and in fact one of the tellers was in the same graduating class of my high school. They would easily know my name. I'm sure the thought of them losing a customer over a new-bee teller, telling customers their money is illegal tender would be the last thing to give ME the stink-eye. My only worries now will be if they address me Mr. Adam upon immediate entrance and exit of the building. "Welcome,... Mr. Adam." and "Have a wonderful day, Mr. Adam. Your coins are ALWAYS welcome here."

Ehh maybe a little to far.

Now, that is a funny story, coinvet.

I believe it also goes for donuts

The teller is one of those drones who isn't smart enough to make decisions, like the guy who didn't approve $80,000 in emergency repairs on an underwater tunnel in Chicago, which caused billions of $ of damage while he was going exactly by the book.

I had a near-useless employee like that. He'd answer the phone, then interrupt me because the caller asked for me. "How late are you open?"

A lady friend worked at Wendy's during college. One day a customer wanted four doubles and the current tray only had five patties. She grabbed eight from the next tray and almost got fired for not following procedure.

The truth is : she dont like you because you go there to dump your coins and its not right her atittude !

Hmm.. I had an issue with a PNC bank coin counter before by it worked out very well. I put a bunch of change in the coin counter (which included 22 dollar coins. I had a roll of 25, kept one for my album, gave one to my dad, and one to my girlfriend). The coin counter didnt accept dollar coins so it spit them back out in the reject bin, except it only spit out 15. I mentioned this to the teller and she called her manager on his cell phone. After about a minute, she put me on the phone with him to explain it myself. She gets on the phone with him for another minute and says to me "I'm sorry about the counter. We can credit your account the seven missing dollars."

The whole issue took about 10 minutes, but that is how a business should work. I don't see why the teller wouldn't just take the quarter anyway.

Not if they know what they are doing. As long as they are identifiable and sorted by denomination the government will redeem them at face value. Even partially melted coins that are bonded together but still recognizable as US Coin is redeemable for slightly under face. They are only not redeemable if they are melted and combined with other metals.

The real irony here is that it was most probably a quarter struck on dime stock which is worth just around $40.

I used to pick these up all the time. Anytime someone couldn't get a coin to go in a vending machine I'd be johnny on the spot to offer them "good quarters" for their reject. Often it was some sort of slug or foreign coin but more often it was a dime stock or silver quarter so I came way ahead. In 1971 half the country was lined up at vending machines trying to get their 1970-D quarters accepted. Many of them ended up in the garbage or sent back to the FED. I'd guess the mintage in the 80,000 vicinity but fewer than a third survive. None are heavily worn but uncirculated coins aren't as common. The typical grade is slider Unc with XF being low end and MS-60 high end. Scratches and gouges aren't uncommon since this is how people test that they are real.