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Valued Member
United States
76 Posts |
I have been visiting the service counter at the local grocery stores for dollar coins since the banks don't seem to have a whole lot of them. Besides filling up a Whitman folder I like to keep them for some emergency cash and my wife likes to use them for the bus since she doesn't drive. Wow today I scored! Bought $37 worth of coins at the service counter and I got ten Ikes, five small dollar coins and the rest Kennedy halves - including three 40% (2-'66, 1-'67) and two low-mintage '82's. Last time I went to the grocery store (same company, different location) I got twenty Ikes including a '71D-FEV (they had more Ikes but I only had the twenty dollar bill on me at the time, then when I went there a few days later they got all cleaned out). I'm getting ready to go through the Ikes for varieties.     I would like to suggest for members here on CCF try Supermarkets for dollar coins and halves if you haven't done so already. Unfortunately during the economic downturn some people seem to have been using them to, well, buy food.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
Nice score. One time, I spent some Ikes I picked up at the bank at a grocery store. Well, next time I asked for Ikes at the bank, they had exactly the number I spent, so I figured out which bank the grocery store uses...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
Congratulations on a nice find. I never thought about going to supermarkets in search of dollar coins or halves. I have the same problem where I live. I cannot seem to find a bank that either has Kennedy halves or is willing to order them for me. |
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Valued Member
United States
122 Posts |
i will try the supermarket I shop at next time and see what I can get. thanks for the info. I went to 5 banks yesterday for halves, only one had them. I bought 200 hundred dollors worth and came up empty but ill keep trying. now I have a bag of havles I dont need.
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Valued Member
United States
122 Posts |
oops I stand corrected, I met a collector and bought a standing liberty coin , he said its okay if I gave him halves so they did come in handy.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2734 Posts |
Local supermarkets have been my source for current-year BU rolls of Cents, Nickels and Dimes at face value.
example: If I get a BU 2012-D Nickel in change at the customer service desk, I ask for a roll of Nickels. More often than not, I end up with a BU roll.
A number of local roll-hunters spend their clad JFK's at those same customer service counters, as an alternative to "dump banks".
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Valued Member
United States
172 Posts |
In North Buffalo/Kenmore area there is a Target...when I stop in there on Thursday nights around 730 or 800 two times the checkout girl had at least twenty oddball coins such as halves, dollar coins, etc...so try Target, they sometimes have good stuff.
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Moderator
 United States
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Quote:Wow today I scored! Bought $37 worth of coins at the service counter and I got ten Ikes, five small dollar coins and the rest Kennedy halves - including three 40% (2-'66, 1-'67) and two low-mintage '82's. Nice finds!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2295 Posts |
Great idea and nice finds!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
526 Posts |
Car Washes, put in a twenty and get the change. I happened to get two 1963 quarters in one try. Slipped in another hundred and got nothing that day.
Have repeated this for the last year or so while I am there and have managed to accumulate a roll and a half of 90%'ers.....
Just another hint. ;)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1007 Posts |
Good idea. what do you do?.... Do you go up to the customer service counter and ask whomever is working if they have any dollar and 50 cent coins?
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Valued Member
 United States
76 Posts |
I just go to the service counter and ask for dollar coins.
I was at a Subway sandwich shop last winter and had to use dollar coins to pay for sandwiches (wife wasn't working at the time due to surgery and family income was cut in half. Good thing I had them!) The people who worked there said they are happy to get rid of the dollar coins since they can't give them in change because customers won't accept them so they have to take them to the bank. Also a bank teller told me she was glad that the Mint quit making dollar coins for circulation because they are a pain in the behind to deal with and they don't want to hassle with them.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Yeah, that makes a bit of sense. I imagine that when times get tough, people will clean out desk and dresser drawers, mason jars, shoe boxes and whatever else that may have curious coins that were once just fun to have and spend them for necessities (i.e., groceries. Or MD 20/20).
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New Member
United States
47 Posts |
I hit up the local convenience store. I live in a small town and it's pretty much the meeting place for everybody in town.
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Valued Member
United States
76 Posts |
Sorry to bring up a three-week-old topic but...
Went to the grocery store service counter to get two rolls of pennies for my wife to roll search (she's addicted now!). They were in clear plastic wrap, I guess by Brinks. Not ONE zinc penny was in the rolls - all copper. Three wheats were also included - '40, '48, '58.
Not bad for just two rolls. We are going to the same grocery store and see if they have more of these rolls!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1770 Posts |
youre right supermarkets are a good place to go specially if your friend owns the market and has his own coin counting machine  |
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Posted 05/13/2012 7:21 pm
