Bank Tellers Tips..please!

I've always had friendly service when asking for rolls at my bank. I just started roll searching in June though. The first time I got a box I went in to deposit a check and then asked for a box of pennies and a box of nickels. I felt a little weird about it at first. The teller was very friendly about it and said that they have one customer that comes in for half dollars, so it's cool. Well it turned out that the teller accidentally used a withdrawal slip instead of a deposit slip for my check I tried to deposit. It took about three weeks to get everything cleared up. They're happy issue me boxes. I think they're just happy that I still bank with them.

None of the banks around me will sell me boxes unless I order them a week in advance and then only one bank will order them for me. I try to buy at least 10 rolls of whatever it is I am searching. Most of the time I get a good mix of customer rolled rolls and Brinks rolls. My best finds,for the most part have been from customer wrapped rolls!

Sherry: From your previous post I think we live in the same area. I bank at Bank of America and they don't order coins for customers at least that is what they tell me. They also don't ever seem to get any of the new coinage like Presidential dollars. I'm thinking about opening an account at KNBT. The tellers seem much more friendly although I asked if they would order boxes of halfs for me and they also said they could not. Not sure if it's because it's a very small market.

RPT, I've never had a problem with BOA ordering for me. I've bought up to 12 boxes of dimes per order. You will occasionally encounter BS from individual branches, though.
Sherry, chalk it up to the fact that teller had a bad day. Some just don't care for their jobs all that much. Also, like one poster said, don't buy and dump your coin at the same bank. That's very important. Good luck,

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Any business will give you the stink eye until you get acquainted with them.
@RTA: I don't know if that means you're in the same area. They probably just have the same business practice. You have a week to get to that bank so that's still pretty fair, I guess.

If you did happen to trade pennies for equal amount of halves, then you're bound to get some annoying questions and grunts. Sell them for paper, then go across the street to the next branch and buy different coin with that paper. Less nosiness. Most tellers, though, don't give a crap and're just happy to have a job.

BOA will order coins for customers. I have found them very helpful. Plus they have Loomis rolls (at least in my area), which I find more productive than Brinks rolls, at least for halves.

I just came home from a Music Festival near Allentown, PA. On the way through Allentown we stopped at a Sunoco to fill up with gas. I asked the cashier if he had any "funny money" and he said that a kid had just bought some cigarettes with "these".

I walked out with 15 Walking Liberty half dollars! At face!