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 Posted 03/17/2015  11:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add timnic44 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You are very fortunate to be able to get pennies. I live in a small town with 7 bank branches. I have friends who work at some of these locations and I cannot get one cent. One friend who works at RBC showed me the 20+ boxes that they have but has to follow policy and not give them out. I would have taken them all but had to settle for a box of quarters to search
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 Posted 03/18/2015  10:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ace_ftw to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
When I try new banks and they don't automatically say no we cant, I am up front and tell them I am a collector, I am not spending these, once I am done I will return them to an RBC. This has worked a few times. I have also played the "I have gotten them from other banks" but this does not seem to work.

I NEVER start the conversation with "Can I buy pennies?" I always ask to buy quarters and dimes, then silver dollars/50 cents, then pennies, and before they can say anything I explain that I am a collector and go through the rolls and keep the ones I need, and return the rest.

I will update with what I get from the bank later this week.
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 Posted 03/19/2015  10:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ace_ftw to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ok, so being it was about an hour drive, I decided to make it count. I first stopped at an RBC branch which I have never been before, ended up walking out with 119 rolls of pennies ( as well as quarters and dimes).

Then I went to the bank to pick up the load, I was disappointed when he said he only had 5 boxes and a bit, I was expecting 8 or more. As they say beggars can't be choosers.

I also got quarters and dimes from them, then he says he got specially for me $18 in silver dollars (they were post 68, so no silver), but unexpected bonus.

Then because the bank was dead I through a curve at him, I ask if they had a bag of rejects from the coin machine, he said he would open it up and see. SCORE!

There were a lot of bent coins and the such, a catholic saints charm, a squished penny and then I saw it, a 1941 Canadian dime Score me some silver.

I also found a 1941 ore with 3 crowns, I assumed was swedish and BAmM silver score #2

So now I will add the pennies to the pile to go through, and maybe put these banks on my list for a once in a while lark
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 Posted 03/19/2015  11:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Normic67 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
timnic44, according to other CCF members they don't actually need to follow policy, they only think they do which is why getting someone of higher authority is something I would do. If there WAS a policy then anything you say wouldn't work and you'd be left with nothing. And it is that that is frustrating to me about it... even though there's no actual policy I can say anything I want and they will never give me pennies because they think they arnt allowed and when other CCF members go and try it they get boat loads of`em... which is wack yo!
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