To Break The Bank Or Not To Break The Bank

Send a kid to medical school to learn endoscopic surgery? S/he can take them out of the bank as homework!

Well, what I did was make some tools from old credit card type cards. I've pulled 3 more dimes out in say the last hour lol.

first 2 nothing special. Decent circulated mercs a 1940-D and a 1944.

the 3rd made me a bit happy. An above average 1912-D Barber dime :)

I'll update if I get more out.

Not bad so far

I still vote that you smash it, but I'm interested as long as you're getting coins out! :)

One last update for tonight. As I said, I got good at dimes. Pulled out another 16...then a Barber quarter fell on my tool and what do you know pulled it out. First quarter :) Got cofidence I could get more and pulled an AU washington, and wouldn't ya know it, and AU 1930 Buffalo nickel :) Pulled 3 SLQ's and a Jefferson.

Things are gonna get better quick :) Just had to pull out 30 dimes before I could get the bigger stuff out lol.

Not sure if it helps or not, but the method that I found best for getting coins out of a glass bank without a stopper, was to take a very thin sheet of plastic (the thinnest I could find) and cut it down so that it was just wide enough to go into the coin slot. Probably about six inches long is good enough, and about what I remember it being. I would insert it into the mouth just enough to create a "platform" for a coin to sit on, then hold the bank so that it was pointing at me with the slot about forty-five degrees downward from the horizon. Slow, gentle, but deliberate shakes would land coins on the platform, and then I would rotate slowly, back and forth, until the fell out.

Not sure how accommodating the slot you are using would be for that approach. When I had done that, though, I was able to completely empty the bank without damaging it. Found it to be much better than fishing them out, personally.