Cashiers Ever Feel Guilty Taking A Valuable Coin For Face?

While I am working the register, anything that goes from the customer to the till and vice-versa is fair game, IMO. I glance down into the till everytime I open the drawer and I give a really good looking through when I have to audit the drawer.

I picked up a couple of 43-P Jeffersons, a couple of wheats and about 50 copper cents over this past weekend.

I have a good friend who used to manage a 7-11 and he would tell me stories, and show me the proof, of the silver coins that people would use to buy their "vice" wether it's smokes or beer.

You wouldn't believe how stupid people can be.

I had someone come into my store and spend two Peace dollars they needed cigarets really badly, they were pretty worn and couldn't even see the date on them but I still took them and put in two dollars into the registar to make up for it

the other day someone spent a silver certificate dollar it was a 55

if you know what your looking for you just have to work a lot of hours and some idiot will come in and spend what your look for lol

I used to be the guy in the back room who fills the coin dispensers at the registers and counted them at night. Before that I was a cashier. I would always look in the drawer when ever I could. Before they started using the automatic coin dispensers when I would give change out I would always look at it closely without being too obvious. If I noticed a coin that looked interesting at all I had no problem not giving that specimen to the customer. Sometimes I would reopen the cash drawer to get a replacement if I already closed it. I wouldn't say anything unless the customer noticed and commented first. Then I would just say that's not US currency or that coin is bad or damaged. The coin would go into the extra coin area in the till until it got slow enough for me to examine it further. If it was I coin I wanted to keep at the end of the shift we would witness each other 'buying' from the till for face value or whatever the face value of the US coin that most closely resembled it.
In the event of a customer paying for an item with rare/interesting coins or currency that went on a case by case basis. If you were a regular customer and/or you were a hard time giver I would always keep it. If you were a regular customer and you were polite and treated people nicely I might say something.
Besides the coins and currency the lost and found almost always would have some nice things in it. I would always wait at least 3 weeks to do anything and often longer. I was lucky I think because I worked in a very affluent suburb there would be gold jewlrey new items almost daily. Diamond earrings and necklaces averaged about one or two a month. I once found a diamond tennis bracelet that was there for over a year. If I remember correctly it had something like 40 .33ct diamonds set in gold. In addition there had to have been like 70 sets of car keys, I have no idea how those people got home. Prob just called AAA to come out and locksmith them a new key.

1 word answer: Nope

I've pulled many a silver coin, star note, radars, proofs, and low serials outta my till. Then I sold em to you guys

Great story ninamason

Well done.

VGRX: As previously noted, only in the case where I think the other party needs the money way, WAY more than I do. Would I take a five-figure coin from a single mama who's counting pennies for gas? No. She has babies to feed. Would I take a five-figure coin from some jerk in a three-piece suit who yaks on his phone the whole time he's at the counter and gets mad when I tell him I'm hearing-impaired and don't understand his mouthing? You bet.

@ninamason: What about one of your daily regulars who never causes a problem, is friendly but is about as well to do as you are? Five figures. No guilt? Not judging just asking.