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Valued Member
United States
129 Posts |
Okay, so I've been wondering if my roll hunting habit has been getting a little out of hand because I've been going through two boxes a week. I know there are more here who do more, but I was wondering...
Well, I know without doubt that I'm in trouble.
I decided to swing by a bank I noticed yesterday coming home from work and see what they had when I went out for lunch today, nothing but they did let me buy two bricks of cents :)
Here's the sad part, as I was sitting at the pickup window in the drive thru, I notice someone had put a penny on the ledge furthest from the window. (It HAD to be deliberate) I knew my addiction was causing trouble when I put the car in park and started to get out to see what it was. Unfortunately, they handed me my food before I could get out. Thwarted again.... drat... maybe it'll still be there tomorrow.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1304 Posts |
Everytime I go to a convenience store I check the "Take a Penny, Leave a Penny" looking for wheats.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
625 Posts |
Drive around aimlessly on lunch break hoping a bank will be right around the next corner?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
Yeah.....One kind of feels like a shark patrolling the waters for food !
I get excited at any little batch of coins I see........or one laying in a parking lot......the "take a penny leave a penny"..... ANYWHERE I SEE A COIN GIVES ME A CHARGE !
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Valued Member
 United States
129 Posts |
It's a great feeling. ESPECIALLY when hyper-vigilance pays off :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6381 Posts |
I checked the Coinstar return slot at a local Vons supermarket and discovered it was FULL of cents. I pulled them all out (realizing I might be getting some funny looks but not caring) and filled both jacket pockets with about 250 coins. I went back the next day and there were at least 50 more cents (which also went in my pocket). I presume the machine was malfunctioning and rejecting all cents. It's been cent-free since so I assume they fixed it. My haul did contain a couple common wheat cents but that's not really the point, is it? Pocket Change, I too know that "great feeling"! |
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Valued Member
United States
296 Posts |
I got some strange looks and heard some murmuring when I took out 5 copper pennies and replaced them with a nickel from the "take a penny, leave a penny" tray at a gas station. I don't like it when cashiers round up the change in my favor to avoid giving me pennies. I got some rolled eyes at a 7-11 when I requested a certain nickel from her drawer as she was getting my change. It was a pre-82 Canadian nickel. |
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Valued Member
United States
129 Posts |
It's good to know that I'm in the right company :). I have some friends that own a gas station... I've toyed with the idea of asking to go through their change but never worked up the nerve
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
lol I sometimes go to local banks with coin machines, just to check their rejects. Ill bring a few bucks worth of change in, and get whatever I put in back as dollar coins then take them to the next bank and repeat the process one or two more times. It has paid off though, I've found that certain banks have coin machines with more silver in their rejects than others.
-XoG
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote:
Wornslick: Everytime I go to a convenience store,
I check the "Take a Penny, Leave a Penny" looking for wheats. Read my post in this thread page.Quote:
DNA: I've purposefully left a few AU LP× Cents
in "Give-A-Penny, Take-A-Penny" trays... The best Wheat cent I ever found in a GAP/TAP tray was a XF 1928-S! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thats great DNA, I need to stand behind you. |
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Valued Member
United States
129 Posts |
Hehe, not a bad idea Slick
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dear Lord....where do I start? I've begun using "outta-the-way" branches of my personal bank, and the company bank...for deposits and withdrawals....hoping to find paper-wrapped cents. I feel disappointed when I can't get at least $20 worth at a time. I don't have to search the "Take a Penny" tray at the 7-11...(I'm there every weekday morning...the clerk knows me by name...and she's already searched/sorted it for me. My .99-cent "refill" ALWAYS totals $1.49...(because it includes a single bank-wrapped roll of cents that she pulls from the machine.  I could go on and on....but I think you get my point eh?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3640 Posts |
Any time I go to B.K.,Macs. etc. I pull away from the pay/pickup
windows a bit so I can open my door and scoop up whats on the ground :) I usually only do it when no one is behind me but ? :)
one time the charity coin holder below the window was so full of change it busted out at the bottom. I told the cashier about it.
Cannot steal from charity. Looked tempting though with all that cash
on the ground. Most of the ground coins are just that, Ground.
Another time I saw about 2 dozen gold colored coins on the ground
while in line. I had to pick them up. They were N.H. toll tokens.
At the time N.H. had stopped using them and used a card instead at the toll booths. They would not refund the money back on the tokens
then so a lot of people got upset and chucked them all over the place. About 6 months later they decided to refund the face value of the tokens to anyone who had them. Hey, they were worth and still are, a buck ea.
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Valued Member
Australia
465 Posts |
I have people at my work bringing me coins at my desk.
I have three eye glasses, two copies of the coin year book, 9 folders, numerous sheets, two *brief cases*...
I have a rucksack that I normally carry with coin holders and a stapler in it.
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Valued Member
United States
153 Posts |
When I go to the bank I usually have the habit of scanning the tellers coin holders for any silvers, I have had some success with that. A few weeks ago I went in to cash a check and the teller had a silver dime on the holder so I asked her for $1.50 in dimes and sure enough it was a silver dime.
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Posted 12/08/2009 1:19 pm
