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Valued Member
United States
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2,000 halves, 20,000 pennies, 2,000 wheaties! Looks like my spring cleaning is going on to the back burner for a while. I had a very hard time getting the halves. Went to a dozen different banks and none of them had any, customer rolled or otherwise. They just don't want to mess with them. I finally talked my personal bank into ordering two boxes for me but they only did it on one condition. That I promised not to bring them back when I was finished with them. I hadn't intended to anyway, I don't want to make them my "dump station". I guess that McDonald's, Starbuck's, and Taco Bell are going to have to deal with them, hee hee hee. Going to start on the halves first and I will give a progress report and a final tally on this thread. Wish me luck!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1934 Posts |
Gasp ! Jaysus, seeker...you ARE the epitome of seeking !! Keep us posted on your finds.
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Valued Member
 United States
119 Posts |
On second thought, that's an awful lot of tacos. I don't even like tacos. What was I thinking?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1713 Posts |
Wow that looks like fun! Happy hunting!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
WOW !...It's going to take a LONG time to "spend" $1,000.00 worth of halves....HOLY CHRISTMAS !
So far, my bank hasn't said anything about being a dump station. I have the "main home bank" and then two other of their branches in town.......it's the other branches that I use as the dump station and I order from the Main bank........no complaints so far.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2049 Posts |
Good luck! I do the same thing but use a whole different bank for my supply bank versus the dump bank. I dont want to take a chance that a teller from my supply bank has to fill in at another branch so thats why I use a completely different bank for getting rid of the unwanted stuff.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2373 Posts |
Good luck to you! I just dropped off my second box of halves. Notning of interest in them, not even a 40%er. Lots of 89D in superb condition. Oh well, I got spoiled on my first box. nlp
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Valued Member
United States
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currently around here taco bell crunchy tacos are .69ea. so thats 1449 tacos and some change. and each one is 170 calories each so thats 246,330 in taco calories. and at 2000 calories a day that should last you 123 days of eating 11.7 tacos per day. this could make a cool documentary. some numismatics, some taco bell, I sense an instant classic.
or you could find a bank that will take them. :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Did you get the wheaties from the bank?
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Valued Member
United States
302 Posts |
I don't think I would want to take them to Taco Bell either. Taco Bell does bad things to me
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Valued Member
United States
119 Posts |
onejinx..........Wheaties came from my local coin dealer. I've been sitting on them for about six months. Just threw them on the pile for effect.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ohh ok. Cause if you got them at your bank , I was coming for a visit.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
810 Posts |
Ive been trying to get banks to order half dollars for me and I cant convince them. I guess Ill have to try harder. I order boxes once a month. I order 4-8 boxes of pennies and 2 boxes of nickels once a month. I usuallu find around 25-50 wheaties a box and 1 or more Buffalo nickels a box. I keep all the nickels from 1962 and under. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Boy, you must live way out away from the big city banks, to get that many wheats1 I am lucky if I get one in a box, or two. A Canuck now and then, even foreign coins the same size as the cent, but no where near what you are getting!
Dick
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I got a 1952 nickel in change the other day and commented, "Oooo, it's older than me." I got applause.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
810 Posts |
 Yeah I been getting lucky I guess. |
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Posted 04/23/2008 06:16 am
