Guidance - Process For Obtaining Dollar Bills

You should be checking for errors too. Most minor errors have no value but many of them are big bucks and might help your score.

Ron, thanks for the advice, I am making friends at the banks I pull from. So they put aside silver and look for anything non standard. Setting up an account in a nearby city (about 85 miles away) and pulling from them once or twice a month may provide something, thanks for the suggestion. If nothing else I now have good relationships with 6 different banks so they look for me, of course it costs me coffee, donuts, pizza, or other things but well worth it. Example, I found a bunch of 43 Steel Wheat Pennies in great shape, I carded and bagged a few and gave to my contacts at the bank, they loved them. Next day one of them had a roll of Ike's for me. It pays to be nice to those people.

Thanks again, For the guidance.

Exactly, what are you trying to collect?

Without knowing what you're looking for, It's hard to say. Buying donuts and coffee for the people at banks could have bought a nice bill at auction. .

Yes, but the time it takes to go through the coins and bills you go through , my mind would be numb and IF I was looking for errors under a glass, I'd probably have a headache. Good luck with your endeavor!

I'm not going to bust your bees, I'm over 70 new technology is totally taking over . I've got digital cameras that quit working after I upgraded to windows 10 and other things that are supposed to make the hobby easier for me to make posts here ,..it ain't working.

I honestly mean good luck

Wow, eight branches in one town! That's a big chain and a big town. Over here, I get one walk-in bank. That's it. The rest are ATMs. I can't even get a $2 bill.

I read on another site that TD Bank was pretty good at stocking $2 bills so, when I get some extra cash, I'm going to try to get a stack. Still, banks can be so clannish. If you're not a depositor, they don't want to know you.

Thanks Wheatback, I get what you are saying and so far that has been exactly the case. Nearly 9,000 in dollar bills searched, no fancy serials, no errors, no mismatch serials, no color seals and only 5 star notes. I have had much more luck on the coin side. I do use 6 banks (different banks not branches of the same) with one that I use as my main dump bank as they have a really good coin counting machine that allows me to deposit coin without seeing a teller. The other five banks order boxes of coins or bills and put aside anything they think I would want (mostly silver) and the only limit they have is "if they have them". I vary the pickup Mon, Wed, and Fri with Sat being my coin dump day, then start all over. My dump bank allows at no charge the ability to PayPal $ to my paypal account and from there I can move it to any of the banks I deal with, which makes asking for coin and bills much easier.

I have been surprised a few times, but for me each time I get a batch of coins and dollar bills it excites me and the process for me anyway is far more relaxing than my day job, allowing me to tune out. Someone out here suggested something I had not thought of, I travel overseas a great deal for work and typically exchange USD for local currency, next time I travel I will do the reverse as they love getting rid of USD.

This site is extremely educational for people like me, but I feel collecting for most is based on the sale values versus no kidding checking a box or a really pretty coin being found in everyday currency. For me, I am not at a point where I feel the need to get on ebay or currency auctions. I may get there as many have suggested, but for now I see this as distraction from the daily grind, it is hard to allow corporate finances to creep in your mind when it is focused on all of the key "arts of imperfection" that could be (albeit extremely unlikely) found just by looking. I really hope that excitement does not change and replaced with cynicism, at that point it would no longer be fun.

Thanks for your thoughts, they are very appreciated,
Topekaguy