I spoke with the vault tellers, well the tellers allowed to go into the vault at both banks I get coins from because that is where boxes are kept. The first time they asked why I needed so many, and I told them I was looking for 2009 pennies because it was Lincoln's 200th anniversary coin. As time went on they are now ordering an extra box of pennies and quarters jsut to have on hand as I walk in randomly to get one in case I didn't call ahead to have them order one for me.
I do not return coin to any bank, I spend them. $100 in dimes today for groceries to just about every store that had something on sale I wanted or I had a coupon from that store for. They only get confused with half-dollars for some reason and do not know how to count them. For nickels and pennies, I spend those buying lottery tickets. Was doing it anyway, and they cannot refuse ANY type of cash for them, so they have to take $10 worth of pennies if that is how I choose to pay for a ticket. Otherwise I feed the pennies to a
Walmart Coinstar and eat the lose of 9.8% if buying something from there, or get a hardware store gift certificate thing and get some extra stuff for the house for no fee.
My banks don't have counters, so they do take rolled coins, but I try not to bring them back to them, it seems to make them happier that way.
Just remember if you want to spend your leftovers, as I call them; don't take too many to a store because the register can't handle too many excess rolls. I try to spend only about 4 rolls at any one place, and try to mix it up so it is not weighing down the cash drawer.
I do not see that anyone else has mentioned it, but if you haven't found already the other coins sizes:
Pennies box $25 rolled
Pennies bag $50 loose
Nickels box $100 rolled
Nickels bag $200 loose
Dimes box $250 rolled
Dimes bag $500 loose
Quarters box $500 rolled
Quarters bag $1000 loose
Halves box $500 rolled
Halves bag ? (haven't tried this yet)
Dollars (small) box $1000 rolled
Dollar (small) bag ? (haven't tried this either)
50 rolls per box, except dollars which is 40 rolls, bags are 2 boxes worth, but they are not rolled.
Another way to get rid of rolls if you find you want to be ahead for holidays, take a roll and tape it up on both ends. Tape a piece of wrapping paper to the roll and roll it around it and tape it up. Then cut of some from the ends and bunch it up or fold it around to make it look like a Tootsie Roll in whatever style the wrapping paper is, and you have party favors worth 50-cent, $2, $5 whatever type of roll it is, that you can give to your kids during the holiday, or family, or people at work, or whatever.
Even the ones you don't want to keep can be fun to be creative with as gifts to people.
If you don't have a scale, you might want to check online for some contraption to make to weigh your 1982 pennies because some are copper, and others are cooper-coated zinc. No idea why they would change in the middle of a year, but they do that sort of thing all the time.
1982 copper 3.11 grams
1982 coated zinc 2.5
Also Canada has ceased using pennies, so keep all you find. 1942-1996 Canadian pennies are 98% copper, and the copper US pennies are only 95% copper. The law in 2006 prevents the melting of US pennies and nickels, but does not prevent you from selling Canadian pennies to melt for their copper value, if you do not wish to keep them to collect that is. I keep my Canadians and all other visiting coins personally.
*I do not advocate for the melting of any coins, as someone else might just need what I do not and see no reason in not giving them a chance to enjoy collecting in years to come, but it is legal to do.
To CCF!
Posted 02/14/2014 10:27 am
I would call ahead and make sure they have one, if they don't you can order one and pick it up at that bank. I don't think you will get a box of brand new pennies. Also tell the teller what you are getting the pennies for, so they don't give you strange looks.
