Working As A Cashier

Lots of wheat cents. 2 fairly nice IHCs
5 or so War Nickels
a few silver dimes including a merc or two
a few silver Quarters including a 1932 Washington
a few half dollars pre 1964; more 1965-69
1 Morgan dollar
1 Peace dollar
several dozen Ikes

A couple silver coins, some wheats.

Oh, and then this:
https://goccf.com/t/113887&whichpage=30#1730779

Traded for an uncirculated 1928 $20 worth around $200.

cashiers take money? I would expect about 90% of transactions are credit or debit.

I worked as a cashier at a warehouse club (similar to Costco) from 2008-2011. I didn't keep track of finds in my till versus roll hunting in my days off (I was a real social butterfly), but I accumulated a massive hoard during that time.

My old job scored me almost all of my silver dimes (about 10; got another one or two from change outside of work), one of my four silver quarters (the other three were from change), and 1964 and 1936 half dollars.

Probably my favorite thing was being at ground zero when the 2009 designs came in. We got at least two boxes of solid LP-2 cents, and I was able to buy a ton of junk rolls to trade the guys at the cash office. Ended up with something like 1700 BU LP-2s, most of which were in sealed wrappers. I also got a BU roll of DC quarters from a solid box.

Back in the mid-80s I worked at Taco Bell as a cashier... put together a complete set of Jefferson nickels...

But the highlight was this nice little roll of coins. I remember dumping them into my drawer, hearing the strange sound, and then looking down in amazement... All were dated 1940-1954, and included 14 War Nickels, and an AU 1942 Canadian nickel (not pictured)... I keep them all together in a tube as a reminder of what's possible...

Thanks, jbuck! It was my "find of a lifetime"... at least so far anyways... funny thing is the best coin in the batch was that 1942 Canadian Nickel (it's hiding in an album in my safe until the humidity goes away).

My sister worked as a bank teller in the late 70's and came home with coffee cans full of silver. Sometimes she spent her whole paycheck buying out silver from her drawer and others. My folks would buy half of it and she kept the rest.

At the time I was more interested in girls, cars, girls, sports and girls to pay attention. I had done pennies as a kid when one could find wheats regularly in change and the special find was an Indian Head. I would take my 50 cent allowance each Saturday and buy a roll of pennies and save any of the pre-WW2 wheats and IHC's. I would use the rest for candy etc. (a candy bar or a bottle of soda cost 5 cents or a dime then...).

When I got older and worked in various high school type jobs I didn't pay a lot of attention to coins or bills (see the second paragraph above...) but did find the occasional silver coin or silver certificate. If I could afford it I would buy it but most of it went back out.

Fast forward 30 years or so when someone I arrested was bonding out his family brought in $1000 of various silver certificates. I tried to convince them that they were worth more to collectors and they should not use them as bail but they insisted so I had to take it and send it to the court. I wish I could have bought them but that wasn't allowed, so they probably ended up in the bill counter with the rest of the courthouse funds.

At the local gas station/convenience store they usually drop the oddball stuff into the charity box. I had one guy who let me buy it out but he left and the new guys won't let me. I grabbed a few dozen SBA's and Ikes, a couple 40% JFK's, a couple rolls of cents that contained a few LWC's each and a dateless Buffalo. A couple weeks ago there were a half dozen Ike's and at least a dozen halves that I couldn't date from the outside that I couldn't touch.