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1. Searching cents for wheats alone is a lot like fishing only for bait fish. You should learn the bigger doubled dies and other varieties and be on the watch for them. Find something good, sell it, and you'd have a lot more than five dimes to turn in for a free roll.
Although I enjoy you sharing your opinions, I also have to state that I enjoy looking for wheats. I do look for errors also. If I do find one, I don't plan on selling it. This is a HOBBY for me, not a business. I hope that someday my great-great-grandkids look through the coins I have saved and are inspired.
The part about getting a free roll from dimes I got in cent rolls was kind of a joke. After working several years as a manager of several fast food establishmens, I can say I have rarely seen dimes in cent rolls. So I thought it was interesting to get 2 out of 2 searches.
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2. If I'm not mistaken, taking money from a bank you know is not yours is a federal crime...let alone very low.
I take issue with this. Why say I am a criminal? Let me point out the many ways you are wrong.
1. I did NOT steal from the bank. The amount of money that the bank had on the books as inventory was 50 cents for that roll. They paid 50 cents. They sold it for 50 cents.
2. Morally, I should give the person that put the dime in the roll, as that is the person that lost out on 9 to 10 cents.
3. If I were to take in the 2 dimes to the cashier (yes, I know exactly which cashier sold me the cents both times), she would then be OVER on her cashier accountability. Cashiers are responsible for overages as well as shortages. I doubt that she would get in trouble for being 20 cents over, but she would have to account for it. I'd say that she wouldn't be happy to have to account for 20 cents that the bank says they didn't have.
What you say would have merit if I gave the cashier $25 and she gave me $25.50 in cents (an extra roll). Then I would be stealing from her and that bank; therefore I would be legally and morally obligated to return the 50 cents.
Honestly, if I reported that I found a $1 gold coin, people would be excited for me. What would then be the difference?
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3. For every Canadian cent you pull you're actually losing a cent, technically. You are not supposed to turn Canadian money in as U.S. money...also technically illegal. Only way to handle this correctly is to turn it in separately and tell the bank they gave you foreign money and that you would like to have it replaced with U.S. money. They will take the foreign coins and do the right thing with them.
I doubt that my cashier would be happy to have to exchange every canadian cent I got with an US cent. Chances are that it would be much much more trouble than it is worth.
You seem to be saying that I am cheating the bank and being illegal because I DO NOT turn in canadian cents in my cent rolls. *confused* How it can be illegal to NOT pass off canadian cents as US cents is a mystery to me. Remember, I am not adding canadian cents to cent rolls, I am pulling them out.
Also, I believe that I am not losing any money in the process. Most of the canadian cents I have found in rolls have been copper ones. They are actually worth more for their copper than the 1 cent US I paid for them.
Hopefully you just jumped the gun a bit. Maybe it was because of another thread where someone stated they got more money back from their bank than they gave. I assure you that I haven't done any such thing. I look forward to your usual impressive replies and hope this was just a fluke. If not, I can easily keep my hobby to myself and still enjoy my legal fun I have looking through rolls to find WHAT I WANT TO KEEP.
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Posted 09/09/2008 5:45 pm
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