Bank Rolls Or Bank Bags. What Do You Get?

I am in Michigan in the U.S. and all of my coins come in rolls from the bank.I order 8-10 boxes at a time. Back in 1995 I was able to get a mint sealed $50 bag of cents but they long ago stopped selling the bags. You can't even request new rolls,i get what I get and happy to not have to pay a premium to get them--yet.
John1

I usually get boxes but I did get a bag o cents off the coin counter at my bank. It took some talking but they relented and let me buy a 50 dollar bag before it was sent off.





Sudz was making some great finds so I had to try it.

I have asked one bank for rolls, they had none, I will be asking the next bank for rolls when I've swapped the ones I am going through now. I want a roll of each denomination x2 for my two sons and I want a few rolls to hunt, just so I can still call it roll hunting and not bag hunting!!

Unfortunately boxes. There is only one coin counter in the area, it's really hard for me to request bags off of it, when I am the one who is filling a lot of those bags :)

I get coins from a few local shops, some keepers even save me the ones I look for! you have to ask, the worst you might get is a sour no.

Definitely boxes from my bank wouldn't want to really buy a bag since I fill it up a lot.

Atleast with a box I know the nickels went to a central location in the Westside Downtown Indianapolis and I get a wider pool to hunt from. In a bag I just get my bank. In a box I get all the banks and coin machines in the region. I'm sure I get back some of my coins but not in any percentage that affect my finds.

In NZ we get new coins rolled from the Canadian mint for 10,20 and 50 cent coins and once they have gone into circulation they get re-rolled by security companies. The $1 and $2 coins come in bags of 1000 from The Royal Mint and often get rolled by security companies before getting delivered to the banks. Banks can order them in loose bags but as customers dont want them like that almost all banks order them pre rolled (I know I do when ordering). This can make it harder to make sure that all the coins in a roll are the same year but around public holidays especially Christmas banks get the odd bag of newly rolled $1 the $2 coins are hard to get hold of new.

Unlike some countries you can not order rolls of coins direct from the reserve bank so you have to be lucky enough to find them in your local branch. IF you get to know the staff they may be able to help you out a bit.

My wife used to work at a branch of a local bank and luckily they will still sell me bags off the coin counter. At times I wish I could buy half bags as a full bag takes me a while to cash in, but I consider myself lucky just to be able to get bags.