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Walked into a TD bank today and asked for any pennies they may have and walked out with 160 rolls. First sort turned up a 1929 EF cond. 2 1937, a 1973 with a small clip, a 1972 missing part of the planchet, my first 1962 harp, a nice 1958, several 1979DD and a bucket full of au 1987-1997. Any one else still able to get pennies from the banks.
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I get pennies... sometimes even a box now and again.... but from only 160 rolls you got THAT!
Kudos to you!!
Most of my banks are really drying up... with respect to pennies.. I think last time I went and did my rounds I only took in around 25 rolls. Although I did score 3 rolls of 2013 and 2 rolls of 2012 .50 pieces for face..
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I agree that I am getting less and less during 2014.The teller said a lady brough them in two days ago and my timing was good as they would be shipped out this afternoon. 90% of the rolls were all the same condition and mix , I got about 200 young head/ k George that I still have to look at tomorrow, I am stoked about the 62 harp. And the special was a toonie core slipped in one roll...lol. I ask for 50 cent pieces but seldom get any.
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If you can remember, please type the whole conversation you had with the teller from start to finish, I want to know Exactly what he or she said to you. Remember though, what the teller said is way more important to me than what you said so its okay if you forgot exactly what you said but just what... and exactly what, the teller said... from start to finish.
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I find that I get pennies in waves, one week I may get only a box or so, and then the next I will get like 6. Sorry to brag.
What I am finding are more rolls of all one date such as 1962, or 67. Last week I got some rolls from one branch and one looked older than the rest and I looked the edges and it was a 65, in ms64-65 or higher.
I told the teller (who is really helpful) that I would open it up for her, and low and behold the whole roll was perfect, I have not had a chance to see if I have any pointed 5's or large beads. The teller was quite surprised when all these shiny bright copper coins slid out of the roll.
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Cool some locals, I had delt with this teller at a different branch before so he recognized me and was glad to give the pennies up. Knowing I was a collector he was happy to give me the pennies. He boxed and bagged them real nicely. I've said this before, get on the good side of the tellers and they are more than willing to give up the coin. Just ask politely.
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So when I walk in and the teller doesn't know me, I'm not on any side, I'm just in the middle, and if I rob the place I'm on there bad side and if I'm nice and explain things to them and be polite I'm on there good side. That makes sense but I have already gotten on there good side I think. What doesn't make sense is that before I'm on there good side and I'm just in the middle, if I ask them for pennies they say they are not allowed to give out pennies anymore. simply getting on a tellers good side should not make the teller give you coins they previously claim are not allowed to be given out anymore. If they don't get fired and nobody else cares then I shouldn't be having this problem. If I tell them I collect coins they say they still cant because again they are not allowed and apparently don't distribute pennies anymore which is a total lie because your able to get them and quite a bit of other forum members or just random people out across Canada. Maybe having autism has something to do with it.
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normic67 I have been told that I can't have the pennies from some bank branches, I just try at a different one. Some branches give them up so they dont have to deal with shipping them to the melt. Others just dont sell them to customers I guess, I'm sure its nothing personal. I just move on to another branch.
Ace_ftw I love getting rolls that someone else has sorted into date as they have done some of the work or the rolls are uncirculated. I once got 6 rolls of mint wrapped 1995 and 6 rolls of 1996 from a box and was quite pleased to have "saved them".
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After going through about half of the circulated pennies I've found that for the most part this load of pennies is very clean and very little "garbage". All are 1997 and older.
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Normic: I don't think autism has anything to do with it. I think is more about the relationship you develop with the banks you visit.
Here's some points:
- At any given time I may do up to 4 bank runs in a month. Within each bank run I visit 3-5 banks that are all within proximity of each other.
- In total I go to 12-15 different banks. Only three of them still give me any pennies. The rest it's now nickles and banknotes.
- Talk to the commercial teller.. they usually have the same person working there and it will be easier to be recognized.
- Build up a reputation with them... for example.. I tell the tellers I'm a coin and money collector and always looking if they have anything interesting or unusual. e.g. Silver coins, nickel dollars, 50 cent pieces, pennies or foreign coins... (what they percieve as collectible and what you percieve as collectible may be two different things) ... but what ever they offer up, just take/exchange for it... knowing you can at dump it at another bank later.
Hope that is at all helpful.. good luck
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Wow agcoinau, you have exactly the same experience I have found. You also follow the same path that I do. The fellow I deal with at RBC is the comercial teller and he is only in the cage on Monday and Tuesdays. He also had no idea what I was looking for until I described it to him. Sometimes he has stuff for me and sometimes he doesn't. I did give him a real nice bu penny of his birth year for helping me out. You are right its sometimes hit or miss.
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