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How Many Banks Do You Do Use For CRH. I Am Using 4 Right Now

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 Posted 02/24/2018  3:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add briton to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Halves.

If they ask, then I tell them I'm a collector.

Typically only 4 boxes from each branch. I've experienced push back if I try to order more than 4.


Thanks again for the conversation. I am going to Orlando next month and think I'm going to try to order some for my son before we go.

I am thinking I'll try Wells Fargo, as that's the only national bank I have an account with. Do you typically just look the bank branch phone number up on the internet and call? Do you just talk to whoever picks up the phone? Or ask for a manager?

Thanks again.
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Internet, call, ask to order coins.

Best to have a dump plan because halves are too heavy to bring on a plane and I recommend against checking them.
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Found it hard to get banks to order halves for me, & even when I did......didn't have much luck. I much rather just grab customer wrapped rolls. I'd even find an occasional 40% edge searching obvious dumps (marked rolls). At the height of my searching I only had 2 accounts with 2 different banks. The success you have obviously has to with individual banks & how you go about establishing a relationship.

I first started off by asking tellers for halves. Any & all banks. Almost all banks want to get rid of them so they don't have to (1) sit on a $1000.00 bag waiting to get filled (at least around here) & (2) pay to ship said $1000.00 bag back. (Banks have to pay to get coin & ship coin back). I only found 1 branch of a bank that flat out refused a non customer halves in the 3 counties I would frequent often. After They got used to seeing me, I started asking for a few rolls of nickels as well as halves.
Eventually I was getting boxes of nickels from several banks I didn't have an account with.

I had one dump bank that had a coin counter that was free for it's customers. They were emptying it every other day because it was full (of nickels). They soon took the counter out. Had to start rolling. Some how or another, it evolved into me swapping out my boxes of nickels for fresh boxes at several banks (even banks that I had no accounts with). When my bank wanted to start charging its customers $10 a month, I went to a branch that didn't know me & closed my account....allowing me to continue getting nickels there. I opened up an account with the friendliest bank around (again at a branch that didn't know me). I had been swapping boxes of nickels there for about 2 years before becoming a customer. Two branches would even call me if they were running short on nickels.
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Thanks for the reply's guy's.

Most banks I've talked to seem to know that people want halves for silver. They do not even want to talk to me about ordering halves and seem very "stand offish" when I ask. However when I ask for pennies or nickels, they will give me a box or two.

I'm just grateful I have a relationship with my original bank and they will order me 2 boxes of halves a week. But I also give them 10's of thousand dollars in interest each year on some of my business loans, and keep very high balances in my account.

I'd love to find one more bank that would order me halves on a regular basis.

I might try the approach of just stopping at every bank I drive by and asking if they have any.

Internet, call, ask to order coins.


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Best to have a dump plan because halves are too heavy to bring on a plane and I recommend against checking them.


Do you just roll them and take them back to the same bank? or a bank you have an account with? I would think that would be the only way to do it when out of town.
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I call the branch or branches ahead of time and discuss my desire to deposit an unusually large amount of halves. During the discussion I ask whether or not they have a counter. If they don't then I ask about depositing bags. If not bags, then rerolled. I try to minimize my impact on their business.

Honesty is the best policy.
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Honesty is the best policy.

Totally agree.
CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Honesty is the best policy.


I walked into a bank I have never been in. the teller asked "How may I help you".
I started with "I don't have an account with you..."
I walked out with $44.50 in pennies.
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All the banks I go to I always ask for their junk (halves, dollar coins , 2 dollars bills, eisenhowers etc!) which they have to count separately from the other cash. I'm always polite and friendly and they appreciate that. So to make a long story short they always save me things they think I may like. Weather or not I need them I will take it. With the bank that orders me boxes of coins I occasionally take them a box of donut holes (large box) which they enjoy with their coffee or tea in the morning. Treat them nice and they will look out for you. I have actually gotten a lot of silver coins and red seal bills that way.
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