Hard To Get Rolls From Banks In US

My CU will sell one roll per customer per day. Not one roll of each - one roll period. I asked for quarters last trip.

I'm curious about Canadian cents also

@atticguy - Not sure how many banks you have but in the city here pop. 165k, there are a lot of banks. Just call around to a few to find out which ones you feel could cater to your hobby. You will want to have boxes ordered fee-free if you'd like. I believe I had accounts with six banks back when I was roll hunting.

I've been keeping whatever canadian pennies I've seen in circulation for a couple of years now. I'm thinking they'll all be rare one day soon enough.

So do you have any way of finding canadian pennies in the wild? Can you still get them in change?

Every year between 1961 to 2012 there were between 140 million to 1.2 billion Canadian pennies minted. There's still a lot of them out there so I don't see circulated examples from these years selling for a premium any time in our lifetime. Although if copper prices keep going up, maybe it will become economical to melt them down.

I asked the head teller at my local branch about ordering boxes. She is very willing to do that. Timing is dependent on their armored car schedule. She said we can order less than boxes too. They won't take rolls back (yet) as there is a free coin sorting machine customers can use.

At a different branch location near work the teller mentioned they rarely get requests for rolls.

I've found a lot of the "shortage" nowadays has to do with the manager.

There are 6-7 branches of Wells Fargo locally where I have an account. I've dealt with three. In one I was told by the manager that because of the coin shortage only two rolls per day. I had $300 worth of rolled, mixed denomination coins to bring/cash in and only wanted to see if they would sell me any customer-wrapped rolls. Nope! Two rolls she said.
I was really confused because there was a coin shortage according to her. She would buy my coins but still not trade.

Baffled, I bought two rolls, walked out, and took the coins to a sister branch where they sold me about $10 worth of customer-wrapped rolls of cents. The helpful assistant there said she worked with the other manager before and said that was just the way she was. It was that manager and not the bank putting limits on roll purchases.

I'm can only guess that the first manager's position was to minimize downtime for her employees chasing down rolls (or she wants them all for herself. )

As I noted several months ago when this particular topic appeared, roll availability remains mostly healthy in my region. Cordial, respectful relationships with managers and tellers continue to mitigate issues.