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Valued Member
 United States
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ok thanks for the advice... about how many rolls should I get?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
619 Posts |
As many as you can afford...or as many as you can search through at one time.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3276 Posts |
as many as you want to search... as long as they have enough. I usually purchase a box at a time which is 50 rolls. although once and a while your bank may not have as much as you want. then just buy whatever they are willing to give up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Used to be a time when if you searched dimes, they thought you crazy. Nowadays, everyone's crazy.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1450 Posts |
I have been roll searching for about 6 years and I always go to my bank and exchange rolls. My tellers always know what I want and are always very good about exchanging. A couple of things that help:
1.mark your rolls in an obvious way so you don't research rolls you have already seen and show them your mark so they don't give you those rolls again.
2.tell the tellers WHY you want to exchange rolls if they ask or have a puzzled look on their face.
3. show them the cool things you find occasionally.
4.cookies and/or chocolate are great lubricants for greasing the wheels of commerce!
5. be kind and be respectful of their job. Sometimes your request may be a huge imposition,if so,come back later or go elsewhere.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
when I was a bank teller I would never allow a customer to exchange rolls for rolls, if they wanted to do that I would show them to the coin machine
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
More and more banks are getting a little ticked off with people playing the take out and return coins for their hobby. More and more are starting to charge for taking in or giving out bulk coinage. Many are now taking in rolls due to all the short rolls lately. Those are the ones missing a coin in each roll. By me the latest practice when you bring in any bulk coins is they send them out for counting and the results are posted in your next bank statement. There is a charge for that service. NO account. They send you a check and a bigger charge for that service. Many banks in my area are getting rid of coin counting machines since they now do the sending out system. Way to amy people take out bulk coins and then just return them.
According to an officer at a Bank of Americaa by me, all their branch banks will start doing this soon.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
According to the latest market reports, Bank of America might not last that much longer anyways (unless they get deemed too big to fail).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
784 Posts |
My hole plan is to take my searched rolls to another branch of my bank get cash for them. Then go back to the bank that always hooks me up with there good stuff, to get more coins.
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Valued Member
United States
52 Posts |
My bank is more than happy to do it for me. I call the manager up the day before she places the coinage order and then I pick it up the next week.
I never dump there, though I will exchange say a roll of halves for a roll of quarters or some such thing.
One thing that helps is the line, "I'd like to buy a box of pennies, if you have enough to do so".
They ask what I do with them, I'm honest. I also tell them that I used to smoke two packs a day (not a lie) and sorting helps keep my hands busy and is relaxing. At this point they congratulate me for quitting smoking and are happy to help.
My dump bank is one where the manager made me mad. I go there, dump the coins, then take the cash up to the branch that I like.
I also help. This week she made a mistake on the coin order and asked if I'd be willing to take some extra. I figured why not.
The other thing I can recommend is shopping around for a bank that accepts bagged coins. I've got a klopp counter, so counting out 25.00 in pennies isn't that difficult.
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Valued Member
United States
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I don't know if you have a TD bank in your area, but I opened an account with them just for coin searching. I randomly met a branch manager at a friend's party and told him how much it sucks when tellers have attitudes about it. He told me to come to his bank and it would be an issue. I go in and I dump my bucket o'change into the coin counter (which is free) then bring my slip up to the teller and one of the tellers always says "More coins or do you feel frisky today and want to search bills?" while laughing. I tell him how I never feel frisky!
At the other banks I've used I never had much of problem, you just need to have the right attitude. I usually say if it's an issue I'll take bills, if it's cool with you I'll take more coins. I find that once they see you a few times they get interested. When they find out I'm not looking for jsut silver they get really intrigued and ask how the previous search went.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I once found myself at a Bank of America that I seldom travel to, and decided to trade one searched box of nickels for another sealed box. The teller gave me a blank stare for a few seconds and asked if anything was wrong with the old box and why I was returning it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
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Valued Member
United States
114 Posts |
it would be great if bank of america went down, then maybe they would stop foreclosing on homes they dont even own...
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