Teller Finds?

Yeah cool. A lot of them know I'm a collector so I'll just ask them to check for wheats at home.

Great haul Broseph! Cool Franklin half, I've always liked those. Wow I guess I have a good reason to ask the tellers at my bank for stuff like that!

But anyway, here's my story of how I've got into CRHing pennies instead of dimes or halves:

I'm pretty sure the first coin I was exposed to was a Wheat penny. I still have that coin, my dad found it for me in circulation years ago... Then I have memories of my grandfather who has since passed on helping my brother and I CRH quarters for the States and Bicentennials.

Then one day, I was looking through my entire collection and saw four or so wheats, all circulation finds. I've loved the design since I first saw it, and I decided there has to be a way to get more of those. So, I became a CRHer, and after two years of searching, I now have 47 out of the 140 date and mintmark combinations of wheats, which is still growing today.

Also there are a few practical reasons why I choose pennies over silver coins:

-pennies can be searched in a high volume efficiently at 50 cents a roll
-wheats have much higher find rates than any other antique coin, and trying to build a good chunk of the series is a reasonable goal
-as opposed to halves, penny rolls are readily available

Anyway, that's my story. While I have a strong appreciation for silver coins like Mercury dimes, my personal favorite silver, its just not my thing to CRH and I am going to dedicate all of my CRHing efforts to the building of the Wheat penny series! Wish me luck!

In my opinion, a Ryedale is too expensive. I don't care much for copper, and it would just be an added step, separating copper from zinc, then copper from wheat. It would be faster, but I just prefer to rip open rolls the old fashioned way. Besides, one of my favorite aspects of CRHing is that it is basically free. A machine worth a few hundred dollars would definitely put an end to that. It wouldn't be worth it for one box. 4 boxes maybe, but I generally do 1 box per bank trip.

my best teller find was 4 1972 D Ikes. The only Ikes I have ever gotten in circulation

The only time my finds started drying up was when a new teller came along. Not to mention the fact that I never have time to CRH anymore.
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I am in canada, the prairies...In my city here the tellers are very rude, and very collecter unfriendly......do not say yu are one,,,They will want to hav yu removed from the Bank- even if yu been a customer for 20 yearsss.....Today I asked for some fives---I had some 10's in my hand--It was like puulling teeth.....The top 4 fives in her drawer had ink on them (Some form of stamp)..She told me she was not allowed to give them out....If not me then who?The next customer?,,They were in her drawer....Why? If not to give out?Wah?I did realize that the stamp has actually devalued them, so I gave up...I was still treated poorly even again before I left...

Oh also, post your finds from your tellers here too if you would like!