Harder To Find Any Rolls At Banks

Here in NC, the Dollars are the only 09's that are somewhat easy to find. I go into lots of banks looking for any halves or 09 cents, nickels or dimes and they try pushing dollars at me telling me they haven't even got any quarters yet.

Ratman, that is because Gov. Perdue mandated the pushing of the dollar coins on all roll hunters entering North Carolina banks. (just kidding) In order to get them to circulate you should go to the bank and get ever how many it would take to pay your property taxes with, and take right on up to the tax office. How do you think that will go over? I get the same thing here in my part of NC also.

I inquired about Tyler rolls at one of the larger B of A branches here this morning. They are out! However, the kind sweetie teller did have 20 of them loose, so I bought them all.

they have dollar coin rolls at the banks here in ky

I just get funny looks in NJ. Banks will have loose older ones, but never seem to have rolls of new anything around me.

I personally wish the banks and Fed would promote the $2 bill. I know cashiers will complain that there isn't a slot in the drawer for them, but why can't they put the checks under the drawer and then move the fives and up over one slot?

I've sarcastically said on another forum that the reason why the checks have a slot are in case the cashiers have to hand one back out in change.

I do agree that the Presidential dollars (I've seen them referred to as "Prexibux") are a great way to encourage coin collecting. They've got me asking for them from time to time at the bank.

I'm not sure about the National Parks Quarters. The States Quarters were neat and I had fun getting them, but enough's enough.

I was thinking about this yeterday. It's a good idea, but the only way this will work is if the banks withdraw the dollar bills from circulation and send them back to the fed. As long as there are any quantity of ones in circulation, retailers will gripe that the drawers wont accomodate both ones and deuces.

But banks are like people, they prefer the paper as well. They aren't going to promote something they don't want to use.



I've been espousing that idea for years. It also has two other advantages. It would mean you wold never have to receive more than one dollar coin in change reducing the weight of coins in your pocket, and the increase in the production of twos would offset much of the reduction from the printing of ones thereby greatly reducing the predicted job losses that the anti-coin people say would occur at Crain Paper and the BEP.

Promotion is not even needed. If the Fed just stopped ordering ones and orderd twos, then when banks ordered they were told "We don't have the ones so we made up you order with twos and dollar coins" the banks would have to do the same thing with their customers. "We don't have enough ones, but we do have twos and dollar coins" they would have to take them and since they are all they ha they would have to circulate them Within a very short time people would be used to using them and it wouldn't matter that the banks never did get in more ones. And as the existing circulating ones wore out they would be retired and not replaced. This requires no legislation, no Congressional oversight, no millions of dollars being spent on promotions, the Fed just stops ordering ones and orders more twos.