Ended - Project $100k- Circulating Dollar And Half Dollar Coins

I usually get the same 6-8 cashiers at the different stores I shop at and most of them know me and that I am getting ready to bust out some change.

Every once in a while you get someone new.

Today it was an older woman (60+) and when I started unrolling the rolls she mentioned she asked if they were half dollars. I said yes. She said she hadn't seen any in a long time. I told her that is why I spend them to educate people about coins and be able to tell them that they are still out there.

While she was counting them out there was one that was holed and I don't recall exactly what she said but she held it up to show me.

Going to Sears, Roebuck, & Co tomorrow to pay off my credit card for LBJ C & C sets I ordered last month and the chest freezer I bought for my parents for Christmas. If you are going shopping tomorrow stay out of Sears tomorrow afternoon otherwise you might get stuck in line for a while behind me.

I made that mistake ONCE .

I used to pay my home Depot bill with half dollars to the tune of $8,000 over 12 months (0% free financing )

One time I brought in $500 in rolled halves. The cashier wrote my name and account number on one of the rolls. 2 months later I got a sealed glued shut Loomis box like usualy from my twice a week pickup bank and it was full of 48 S & S wraps and 2 Loomis wraps all of which looked rerolled. The second from last roll had my name on it.

I can only speculate that Home Depot kept all of the rolls and when their armored car service did their daily or weekly pickup they did not question of the rolls were bank rolled or rerolled by me.

After that noone gets rolled halves from me. This is why I have been fighting with Chase since they went with their no more coin counter in branches policy starting July 1. I would take my Loomis wraps, open the end, push the coins out, go through them, and then push the coins back in and hand crimp the open end. I knew from the Home Depot experience that there would be a very god chance that the armored car service would just take them from the branch at their weekly pickup and rebox a straight 100% dump I would paint the wrappers or take a magic marker and scribble on them to sort of warn the armored car carrier that they weren't bank rolled. Knowing from previous discussions on the forum that a bank cannot refuse to take a cash payment on an interest bearing loan I used the marked rolls to pay down my Home Equity line of credit which I had to do anyways.

Long story short after a teller told me they wouldn't take them because of the marked rolls and I said "You are more worried about what the wrapper looks like instead of what is inside like a roll of washers" I used the label printer at work to put the tellers name and the banks phone number on the outside of the rolls the next time. The new kid took them but the next week they refused again and said that they called their legal department and were told I was making "terroristic threats" to their employees by putting their name on the roll. At that point I was mad and pulled out the fact that they couldn't legally refuse my payment and that they better call their legal department again. I would have told them to shove it after the first refusal and took my money elsewhere but I also pickup boxes from a different Chase branch.

Yeah before any keyboard commandos jump in I know they "can" legally refuse a cash payment but I would not be responsible for the late fees and interest charges.

So after calling them out that day I get a call from a district manager the next day because I guess they did call their legal team and were told I was right and I let him know what I thought about that branch and all of their abrasive employees going back years because even before they pulled the coin counters out for a year before that they tried to run me off by saying they would have to send my coin off to be counted and it would be deposited in my account later because they weren't going to run it while I waited. They were also mad at that time when I still showed up every week because I refused to be punked by them.

So anywho I don't give out rolled coin.

Jack, those are sure some interesting stories. I never use halves for purchases over a few dollars. My bank (BoA) doesn't have a coin counter either, so I have to reroll. It takes a while, but it's really my only option. I often just scribble on the rolls with a pen like you mentioned so I know if I'm getting back my dumps. Sorry about the bad experiences with Home Depot and Chase.

Mmm... fresh gas station milk...

Well, at least you got an extra dollar out of it.

Spent one Ike and one Kennedy for a paper...

$499 to go

Well, at least you were honest about it, I guess.

That would be entertaining. I, however, am not interested in being a stalker.