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Pillar of the Community
United States
593 Posts |
I went to a bank today as usual asking for cwr dimes and any half dollars they have. The teller and another teller ( both young females not your usual silver hunting tellers ) are busting open rolls from a $500 Half Dollar box on the counter I see a small pile of silver edges, I casually ask can I buy these? No were saving these but you can buy the others ( clad junk ) No thanks I say can I buy some dimes?. I got $240 in clear wraps and found 2 silvers. Now I know why I've never found a silver half in this bank.
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Valued Member
United States
80 Posts |
well atleast you got the 2 dimes! there is always a positive side to every story! :D
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Valued Member
United States
220 Posts |
Wow I wish I could get paid to roll search and keep all the silver I'm jealous
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Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
then on the flip side I had the merchant teller hand me a 64 half the other day, she said she will watch for more for me, someone just got put on my Christmas card list.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
530 Posts |
I would start dropping some dumps off at that bank.
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Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
very true half hunter, that's an excellent idea.
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Pillar of the Community
1028 Posts |
What kind of bank is this where tellers are just busting open rolls on the counter during business hours? The banks around where I live have bullet proof glass everywhere and tellers have to sign in and sign out every little thing and lock up any money they deal with between every transaction. If tellers at my banks did something like that, they'd probably be fired on the spot.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
I agree hesgut, I find this hard to believe that any bank or CU would allow.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
That is just flat out ANNOYING. But legal.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8516 Posts |
You know we would all do it if we worked at a bank lol.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Valued Member
United States
216 Posts |
I was waiting to get halves at a bank I never order from, and the teller next to me told me that any silver that comes in is hers 100%. I get it, perks of the job. Along with the counting she'll have to do, since I now made her branch my main dump bank!
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Never go to a bank that has a avid collector on the telling staff!
My sister used to be a teller, and she has been collecting most of her adult life.
When she was working for the bank, she would vacuum up anything of interest!
And she had the whole staff on the lookout for her!
From 1980 until 1994, Australia issued a series of NCLT $200 gold coins. When they were originally issued, they had less than $100 worth of gold in them. The were grossly over issued, and they were cashed into the bank in later years, when the melt value was still way less than the face value. Lots of folks just wanted their $200 back, and because they were legal tender, the bank was obliged to accept them.
My sister over a period of about five years, whenever she could afford to, bought them off the bank at face value.
She was thinking that at the very least, she would not loose much, except for inflation.
Currently, each of those coins is worth over $450 in melt value alone. She even has a few proofs of the sub series 'Pride of Australia', and some of those had combined mintages proof and uncirculated as low as 8,000.
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Pillar of the Community
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I once had a standing order of 2 boxes a week from a bank... first couple weeks, everything was fine... fourth week, the box was opened, and everything was in CWR... I was livid. The teller who picked through them apologized, handed me 5 90%ers and 17 40%ers, and I was on my merry way. In exchange for him giving up the silver he pulled from those boxes, I didn't call corporate and complain... which you better believe I would have done if he hadn't given it up.
I was really tempted to call when I later realized he shorted the rolls that had silver in them... I bought $1k in halves, paid for the silver separately... figured he'd used some of his clad supply to refill teh rolls... nope! I got shorted $11 when I dumped.
Edited by FadeToBlack
01/11/2013 8:04 pm
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Pillar of the Community
614 Posts |
^
Storys like that make me really, really dissapointed.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
593 Posts |
Fade to Black I think you let this teller off really easy. He basically commited an act of theft if he shorted the rolls after searching them and then sold them to the customer. Not only is he a thief but since the banks are federally regulated the FBI might want to have a talk with him.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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if he shorted the rolls after searching them Key word: If.If the bank's internal policies allow them to do this, and they pay the bank 50 cents for each half-dollar they take, I don't see a problem. We have a few cashiers on CCF who collect coins they buy out of their cash drawers.  |
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Posted 01/10/2013 10:01 pm
