A Bank Not To Use.

That stinks. I feel for you. Here's a solution: Try a few other local banks with the same request. If you don't have an account with them, start one. They'll get to know you and will probably be nicer than your old bank.

While I have never been refused rolls or given uncirculated ones, there used to be a bank I went to that only gave out $5 in pennies. If I would ask for more, consistently and conveniently they would "run out." I "outgrew" that branch once I needed more rolls than before to get the same results. That bank now gives me a box a week, knows me by name, and asks how my penny collection is going.

Lesson: For every bank that turns you down, there is another that won't. Good luck and happy hunting!

Some banks have become very weary of roll hunters. There are many doofuses out there completely unaware. The person asking "for the old ones" is perfectly innocent, just not well-versed in roll hunting etiquette. That's ruining it for us all.

fistfulladirt:

Hey maybe you should start a coin roll hunting ettiquete thread. It might help beginners from making mistakes like that.

If not I can start one.

I am just wondering if you were reading the bank wrong. I have had banks to ask me the same question. No big deal. They know that I search through them and assumed correctly that I did not have any interest in a solid box of new cents. I wish that they would have asked more often. I probably still have about twenty boxes of 2008 P's.

Good strategy! That's pretty funny.

I just had a bank teller ask me why I wanted $10 in pennies. "For Penny Poker?". I said "Yeah, that's it." I don't know why but I sometimes feel funny about asking for rolls at the bank, especially when they ask what they are for. Like I am doing something wrong, or something.

I know how you feel. I used to feel 'guilty' asking for boxes. I bounced from branch to branch reluctantly asking for boxes. I finally settled in on one branch and got to make friends and discuss the hobby with the teller. I usually go in once a week to get a box. The teller now keeps any wheats she finds in the drawer and lets me trade her penny for penny. She said she used to collect but just quit due to the time it takes and having children. I dont feel uncomfortable at all going there now! Plus its great having someone to discuss coins with.

The first time I got a box, I started out just asking for 5 or 10 dollars of pennies. I then asked, unless you have a box I could have. The teller asked the manager if they had a box. It turned out to be my first box of pennies to roll hunt.
They were very nice about it. Maybe I will ask for a box of dimes or quarters next.
Only thing is I felt bad watching the manager carry the box, as she is right about a hundred pounds soaking wet with rocks in her pockets, she huffed them out of the back on her shoulder.