Small Town Banks.... The Best Banks?

Wow, picked up 2 wheats so far from the first roll! Nice to be entertained for free this rainy weekend.

I never found a single cam or WAM and I'm wondering if it's even worth looking. I kept the 69-s and 72's separate so I can look at them under my USB scope. Probably 20/30 of them to look at.

I have already located what towns have my bank...that way I wont have a problem with them... hope there are a lot of CWR in their little vault behind the counter. NIce old coins! I dont want to get too excited so that way I wont be disapointed if I get skunked but the thought the same coins may have been around for years excites me.

Well I still hope they are jammed with old coins...These little towns are about 1.5hr drive (at best) from any other town that has a pop of 75,000 or more, so I really hope that its been the same coins running around for a long time and no one is really aware of the valure of the oldies :-D

I live in a pretty big city, but with several small towns nearby. The big city banks have more coins coming through, so you have a better chance of finding silver, but not as much. The small-town banks have much less turnover, so if silver ends up there, it stays a lot longer. I had been finding silver in drips and drops in both places, until a couple of weeks ago.

I went to a newer branch of a small-town bank, that always seems to have a little silver. I talked to the head teller, who had dozens of old rolls of halves. Almost every one of them had at least one 40%! Needless to say, I cleaned her out. By the time it was over, I had found 25 40% and 1 90% half!

Excellent topic! Thanks for starting the thread again. Personally, it's a real toss up for me. I tend to find older coins in small town banks, but you better bring some spare rolls to trade if they don't have a lot of change on hand. The won't let you clean them out of change for their real customers.

One teller even made me count out my roll content because I didn't have an account; and yes it was a very small town and people were in the bank to talk instead of bank. I wish more were like this but with the times, it's understandable. By the way, be ready for the evil x-ray vision eye as the head teller, usually the only one in the bank, sizes you up.

I also like the large banks in large cities. They are more willing to give you the rolls you want without exchanging rolls and, like when I got up to DC, you never know what "dark sider" coins you'll find in rolls.

I do find the large banks more cool to my requests though. But then that's the nature of the beast.

Yep, it really doensn't matter. Banks tend to keep a minimum of change in the vault, because they have to physically count the contents of the vault before closing every day. It might be possible, but I just don't believe that banks have these "hidden old coins in the back".
They usually place weekly orders for coin and currency, or use up the customer-rolled that comes in.