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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That is an incredible story! Times are tough but they're not that tough!  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Hmmm. Anyone else thinking maybe they were being fenced?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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They are dated up to 1927? Anyone check to see if that's a 27D?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
891 Posts |
Apparently no one else there has a clue about them either. Look how they are being handled. Slowly knocking down the collector value. I wonder if any of them were dropped and how many hands they went through.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I watched the video. That bank management needs to be fired and the news people educated for a follow-up story on what to do with coins if you end up with a situation like this on how to handle the coins. I would bet mishandling the coins has reduced the value in thousands of dollars from the time they started this journey. I guess now somebody put them all together in a zip-lock baggie and is jingling them right now under somebody's nose. I'll be qweezydog today for awhile after watching that.  Some of that luster even jumped off at me on a streaming video. Edited by TNG
03/29/2009 12:31 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Hmmm. Anyone else thinking maybe they were being fenced? I kind of wonder myself. A 20 something woman walks into a bank with 14 double eagles and has no clue what they might be worth? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Something is really not right here. And the news media is always so accurate you know. As already noted that idiot that was jingling those coins as if they were nothing should be fired as well.
1. How did anyone know about this if she took them home?
2. The teller must have mentioned it to others at the bank or no one would have known.
3. A female in her 20's or 30's with a handfull of $20 gold coins? Did she have them from back in the days when they were used? OOppps. I guess she would have to be older than in the 20's HUH?
4. So how did the media find out about this?
5. Not sure why the teller was fired either. Tellers take coins home all the time as long as their drawers tally out at the end of their shift. And they too hand coins to customers if they have them such as old coins if you see them in a drawer.
6. Why isn't this on all the news reports. Every year someone puts Gold coins in those Salvation Army baskets and it makes the news on every station. So why is this not broadcasted more?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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OMG! I think everyone in that clip is a maroon! Watching that makes me sick to my stomach...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2130 Posts |
That was something. He wasn't even wearing gloves. Obviously he's not a CCF Member. The woman was probably mad at her husband/boyfriend and decided to fix his wagon by cashing in the coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My wife works at a bank as a teller and the only thing she's brought me in the last 3 months was a cruddy 1964 quarter. I could live with her getting fired if she brought 14 of these home....
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Pillar of the Community
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I could live with her getting fired if she brought 14 of these home.... But this teller learned how valuable they were, gave the coins back to the bank, and *then* got fired.  So much for honesty. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Buying the occasional silver coin out of a cash drawer is one thing but we are talking almost 14 ounces of 19th/early 20th century gold here! I think the teller knew how valuable they were all along hence going to a coin shop to sell them. Luckily, the coin shop owner was not such a willing participant in this fraudulent act. Something tells me that the teller did not willingly return the coins on their own volition and that is the reason for the firing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Don't know that the dealer wasn't willing to be a participant. The coin dealer supposedly bought 2 of the coins from the teller...and they had to be bought back from the dealer.
And there are some claiming that there were employees at the bank, including the manager, who did know about the coins before the teller took possession of them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dang, where is my wig.. it was me.. I want them back I didnt know. I am betting that somebody will come forward. Likely a coin collector who has recently been ripped off.
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But this teller learned how valuable they were, gave the coins back to the bank, and *then* got fired. So much for honesty. Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #285: No good deed ever goes unpunished. Quote:
Something tells me that the teller did not willingly return the coins on their own volition and that is the reason for the firing. Quite possibly true. I would like to believe that the teller was rightfully fired, not thrown under the bus by management when their plans fell apart. |
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Posted 03/29/2009 07:41 am
