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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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  This is from a smaller, further branch from where I usually go to. I asked if they have any silver, and... They had 3 of the rams still in boxes (a bit scratched here and there tho), 3 polar bears, and 2 reindeer still with cards. I can't afford all of that so I had to settle for one each of the 50 and 100. I got both of the reindeers since Christmas is coming. Might make a nice gift (read: easy to resell now  ) I sat down and looked at which of the 100 and 50s I would I like to buy, fortunately the manager is very patient! She said that she can't accept any more RCM products at this branch in the future, so I need to go to another bank if I want to cash in stuff like these. She mentioned that someone cashed in some of '54s a month and a half ago (she bought them), but with the holiday season coming up someone might cash some old bills in. They also had 105 pennies loose. The '36 KGV and '27 LWC was a surprise! I just took a couple extra to make it a round 10. Interesting thing happened, someone cashed a suspicious 5r (the old one one with no security strip). There was no watermark so the teller brought it to the manager and I asked to look at it. The serial numbers were just wrong, apparently serial numbers are not easy to copy (either that or no one pays attention to them anyway) since most pics of fake Canadian bills I see online have the same mistake...
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New Member
Canada
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the only downside is that they are available from the mint for face value with free shipping but nice haul!
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
2519 Posts |
The reindeer is no longer available and the ram is sold out. Only the polar bear is still available.
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Pillar of the Community
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Which bank was that!  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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TD. I usually have more luck in smaller TD branches simply because they do not ship away their old money as quickly as the large branches do.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Face value is always a good price..  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Good job! Nice find!
Always love getting silver at the bank!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The reindeer coin seem to be stuck inside the capsule, I can't get it out. Is this the case for any 20-for-20s?
It's too bad I can't afford more of them, now they'll get sent off to be ARPd...
Oh yeah, I also withdrew 50 in tens and guess what SN I got? FTE0002143. Earlier I also got a five from change and the SN was HBP8691967.
Only if I can just change one number!
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Normic do you search bricks? I did that while I was in Indonesia and found a couple of UNC fancy serials.
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Pillar of the Community
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I do search bricks and have no other choice to! I guess the tellers where you are are more loose about things because over here in BC you just cant... "CANT" do what you did there or what other forum members have done and proved me wrong somehow. I don't search penny's at all anymore and the last time I ever got any from the bank was around 2 or 3 years ago and have asked various banks over and over again. I don't bother with nickels and dimes anymore at all because even if you tell them to give you an unsealed box, all the coins in it are still 2001 and over. I didn't know that they have it the same way in Indonesia, that's neet!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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To be fair this is the first branch in many I have went to in the past few months that allows to do this. I've given up roll hunting too, ARP has destroyed all the fun in it. I've only ever found one of those 1992 "Canada 125th year" quarters, and even the nickel nickels are getting scarce.
In Indonesia you can ask the teller for new bricks, and they give you a brick of all new money, consecutive. I looked through my dad's bricks in his shop (I asked permission first and I replaced the ones I took) and found a couple of fancy serials.
I have five boxes of pennies just sitting here, no one wants to buy them off me locally and I don't want to cash them in because they'll get ARPd.
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Pillar of the Community
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You have a way better chance to find something from circulation rather than in a bank, something old or interesting I mean, I've found a lot of those provincial quarters but not in bank rolls, in purses, wallets, cash registers and fountains. The coins I find in fountains would of gone to the bank and been lost forever. The charity's put them in rolls and take them to the bank. If those 5 boxes of penny's you got have been searched it shouldn't really matter as long as you get your $125 But if most are copper then well  |
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Forum Kid
Canada
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excellent! very nice haul!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It is bad luck to take coins out of the water. I am not normally superstitious but I do get lucky when carrying silver sixpences or bent pennies so I won't risk it.
Among my best finds some were from looking at someone else's change. My first ever silver was a 1963 quarter, and I also found a 2003W, looking through someone else's change. Not to mention a few George VI pennies.
They're mostly copper, so they definitely will get ARPd.
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Posted 11/25/2014 6:57 pm
