Ever Been Denied Rolls/Boxes At A Bank?

I'm still laughing DBM!

I have had to use considerable cunning and charm at times to continue getting pennies north of the border. It doesn't always work.

No bank teller in Australia will help you, if they find that you are into CRH'ing. I suspect that all of the staff have been instructed by management.
I guess that the management do not see any profit in it for the shareholders of the bank.

I was CRH'ing as a kid 40 years ago, and after a few successful attempts at different banks, was universally refused.

There ARE other ways of coin hunting however; just save every circulation coin you get as a form of an affordable savings scheme. With $500 in small denomination coins, you can still have a lot of fun. You take a few prizes from the $500, and put the rest in your account, or change for large notes, and spend them.

I currently have about 2 litres (about $300) in specialist commemorative circulation coins, and will search these soon.

I will take a few out, and spend the NON prize 50c, $1 and $2 on gas for my car. Like a lot of Americans, I put all of the smaller denominations in a cookie barrel. The smaller denomination coins will be returned to the bank, where they are automatically sorted and weighed, the value returned to me in notes, with a smile from the teller.

If my bank refused to give them to me (unless they say they are short and cant spare any right now), I'd open an account at another bank and get them to transfer my money over then close my account.

I have a good chunk of money in my account that I'm sure they'd do everything they can to keep me.

H1cks makes a good point, but it should be handled in the same manner as if you were taking in a bucket of change to have it exchanged for bills. You shouldn't be charged a premium for exchanging one type of currency for another. However, everything comes at a price these days. Employers have to factor cost into everything and optimize the daily transactions to get more out of their employees for the same cost. That's the world we live in. I'm gonna continue to hit up the banks until I'm told to stop asking.

What's your member number?

"I think they have been on to it for a while. They only act when the cost of doing so is less than the cost of not. This is why I feel it is good to pace yourself, try to fly under the radar." --JBuck

For everyone new here, this is the mantra. Otherwise you will kill your sacred cow very quickly. Don't order too much at once, don't get greedy. Always be courteous.

Halves normally are boxed in $500 amounts. I've never had much luck with boxes of halves, even as far back as five years ago. They are searched to death, and I get tired of 15 boxes of zero keepers, then maybe one box with a 40%, I have not the patience. I have had great luck with dimes, they give up silver consistently now for over six years.

I've been hunting for almost a year now.

I started by chatting with the lead teller at my local branch about getting a box of halves. She told me that another guy orders in boxes and that it wouldn't be a problem. Well, two boxes later, I had found nothing and decided that cents were the way to go. They are plentiful and don't keep a chunk of change in limbo.

The tellers at this particular branch are a CRHer's dream to work with as they will order whatever I ask them to. That being said, if I order something, I ALWAYS pick it up - honesty and punctuality is appreciated.

Curiously enough, the branch that my employer uses (the same bank but the branch that's 1.5 miles away from the one I use) won't give me boxes. I have several accounts with them, my employer has two accounts with them and they are blatantly rude about not letting me get boxes.