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Valued Member
United States
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CRHs disagree if it is wise to explain to bank tellers why they search rolls of half dollars. Some coin collectors describe incidents when friendly tellers have held "interesting" coins for them that turn out to be silver half dollars. But other collectors warn that tellers will purchase silver coins cashed by customers after CRHs explain their value.
While I was purchasing two boxes of BWR half dollars today, the teller handling the other line volunteered that earlier this week a customer cashed in 27 silver half dollars(!). She told me that she gave these coins to her nephew after purchasing them. It was bad luck that customer approached her line -- I think the friendlier teller that I usually use would have set them aside for me because she is bemused by my efforts (and she knows that I would have purchased pizza for the bank team if I had acquired this cache).
To rub salt in the wound, when I opened the boxes I learned that one box contained only 2025 coins, and the other box contained rolls that a different CRH had already searched and re-wrapped!
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Moderator
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Bummer.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I stopped going to one bank because a teller said he had gone through them already, at least he said some thing.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I get it. Frankly, I'm not too concerned from my perspective. I'm fortunate to have close-in access to several branches across three different banks. I have good rapport with several tellers, which has yielded a few surprises over the years. Going for quarters tomorrow...
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That's a bummer.  Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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CRHs disagree if it is wise to explain to bank tellers why they search rolls of half dollars. You know that's like telling someone your secret fishing spot........  |
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Moderator
United States
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yup, a real bad thing to do - never give out the secret to your cash cow. |
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United States
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Do y'all have open accounts at all of these banks? I ask, because when I've gone to banks where I do not have an account, they always have the same reply...they don't sell me coins unless I open an account. It hasn't always been the case, but it seems to be now.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Vector Ze: I've opened small ($100-$200) savings accounts at most of the banks I visit so that when a teller asks if I have an account I can answer "Yes". The bank where the manager every week orders two boxes for me required that I open a checking account, and have at least one check deposited every month (fair enough). Other CRHs: The best example of the benefit of explaining to tellers why I am interested in silver coins occurred last September. The teller at a BoA branch I don't visit very often set aside two CWRs of half dollars for two weeks because she noticed that the wrappers looked old. I found 28 Walking Liberty half dollars, two 1964 Kennedy half dollars, and 10 coins that contain 40% silver in those rolls. 
Edited by NorthShoreMA
03/27/2026 2:47 pm
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You know that's like telling someone your secret fishing spot........  |
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The best example of the benefit of explaining to tellers why I am interested in silver coins occurred last September... Fantastic!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My mom used to say:
"It's not a secret if more than one person knows."
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United States
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Three people can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. 
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United States
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very true jbuck |
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United States
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CRHs don't agree on the wisdom of explaining to bank tellers why we try to acquire CRWs and BWRs. I've always shared my interest in silver coins with bank tellers. Most of them are bemused by my pursuit of this hobby. Only once has a teller at one of the local banks that I regularly visit purchased the silver coins after a customer cashed them. Today one of the more friendly tellers at a bank I often visit approached me while I was using the coin counting machine and told me that she was holding some "interesting" coins for me. It turns out that yesterday after a customer cashed eight half dollars she noticed that most of the coins had silvery edges. In fact, seven of those coins are 40% silver Kennedy half dollars. I thanked her for selling them to me at face value.  |
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Posted 03/26/2026 5:29 pm
