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Valued Member
United States
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Sorry if this topic has been discussed before, but here are my top 3 pet peeves (in no particular order): 1. Being shorted. I once got a customer roll from the bank that was supposedly dimes, but was filled with pennies instead. I have never asked for customer dime rolls after that again. 2. Dirty coins. I've got coins before that are so dirty and gross, it's not even funny. I've gotten metal detector finds, stuff caked in old gum, body hairs (grossest), chicken feathers, drenched in black motor oil, etc. I really should start wearing gloves. 3. Searched rolls. I personally always mark my own rolls, as a professional courtesy to other roll hunters. But I've definitely gotten dumps before. Sometimes it's 50 rolls of nothing; sometimes it's a roll of nothing but Wheat cents. I do collect copper cents, so even the searched penny rolls have something for me most of the time. What are your biggest pet peeves? Let's commiserate together  Cheers and happy hunting! Edited by AllSeasons
08/12/2023 12:19 am
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Moderator
 United States
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
6473 Posts |
My list: 1. Attitude from tellers. Not just about getting $20 in nickels (and for real, that's for business customers only?). In the digital age, a few of them seem to view it as a major inconvenience to go to the vault and get a little tray of rolls in exchange for cash. If I could get nickels from your ATM, you'd literally never see me again, lady! Most tellers are totally neutral, though, and are pleasant enough customer service people. 2. The Ring of Death. You get a beautiful 2023-P nickel, gleaming with that freshly minted glow. Then you flip it over and it's got a RoD straight through the letters, date, and Jefferson's face. It's 2023 and we haven't figured out a machine that can wrap coins without disfiguring them? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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THIS!  This isn't my roll or image. I found this on the interweb as part of a notice on the counter of a restaurant near a college explaining why they wouldn't take sealed rolls of quarters as payment anymore. Someone got $10 worth of food for a buck plus the cost of the sockets (10¢ each at the flea market?) The owner said he was NOT happy! I can imagine a Coin Roll Hunter getting something like this! ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
586 Posts |
I actually like dirty coins. Oink  It lets me know the coins are circulated and potential to have lots of interesting things in them. Uncirculated rolls are okay I suppose if I want to sell them on ebay or search for new errors myself. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
586 Posts |
At my old bank, they stopped giving me rolls. I was okay with that because I started getting rolls at my new bank. I deposited the used rolls from my new bank into my old bank for a while. My old bank then REFUSED to deposit my rolls. What kind of bank refuses to take your money!? I closed that account the next week.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The fact that Australian retail banks do not like CRH'ers, and will not co operate with them.
CRH'ing is the ideal way to build skill to identify die variations.
When it comes to ancient coins, die linking studies are the way in which the date order of an issue can be determined and which mint a particular coin came from.
For those who seriously study ancient coins, CRH'ing is their training ground.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I've been roll searching for decades, so my view tends to be a long one.
Shortage -- I've been shorted a number of times, but nothing dramatic. I've had instances of higher denomination coins in cent rolls--two or three dimes mixed with cents on several occasions. Even had a few times where silver Canadian quarters were mixed with clad US quarters. Some of my very best finds have come in customer wrapped rolls. Over all, I think it 's balanced out.
Dirty coins -- It happens, comes with the territory.
Marked searched rolls -- Having a searcher mark the paper wrapping is tolerable. I don't like it when searchers use a sharpie to mark the face of every coin they encounter. I came across 10-12 rolls of low MS quarters several years ago with a bold sharpie swipe across each and every coin in all those rolls. PS -- I've found decent material in searcher-marked rolls (where the mark is on the paper). Just sayin'.
Tellers -- With perhaps one exception long ago, I've had very positive interactions with them. I make it a point to build and establish cordial relationships with them. I treat them with utmost respect. I take what I can get roll-wise--I never make demands, whine, or sulk. Smile and be grateful for what's available. Over the years I've had tellers volunteer to keep their eyes open for interesting/cool stuff, and It has paid off. I've never had to ask for that courtesy.
Entitled roll hunters (at the bank), -- I stood behind an entitled/self-important roll hunter at a Chase bank a few years ago. He was picking up boxes of every denomination coin they had--cents through dollars--one to two boxes each. The teller was stacking them on a cart. He was critical of most of the boxes--finding a crease here, or a mushed corner there. He was vocal with is disapproval, and openly condescending. Eventually he left and I was next with the teller. I asked politely for four roles of quarters, got them, and thanked her.
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Valued Member
Canada
54 Posts |
I search both sides of the border and frankly would rather hunt US than CDN as there seems to be infinitely more varieties and errors than Canadian.
Bugs; up here the Alloy Recovery Program (ARP). Zero chance of finding real nickel or silver unless they are customer wrapped rolls, that and no Pennies to search for over a decade.
On the US side, corrosion, I swear 30% of every penny roll is corroded and I mean heavily corroded.
On the positive, never had a problem at any branch of my bank either obtaining or returning rolls.
I have no problem searching US Loomis rolls but wouldn't touch one up here in Canada.
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Valued Member
United States
254 Posts |
I worked as a bank teller for nearly a year and have worked at a bank for more than 10 years.
At the locations that I was a teller we did not mind coin roll hunters. Most of us (not all) had a genuine interest and curiosity of what our customers would find.
The one type that we all despised of, including myself, are the guys searching just for silver. We had one guy who ordered $3,000 in halfs, which was fine. However, when the Brink's boxes were wrapped in clear plastic he just went to the lobby, looked through the sides, pulled one silver, then promptly wanted to return them. He was a bit arrogant about it and I flat out denied it. Never saw him again.
I had a lady one time bring in a couple of stacks of brand new 1928 $100 bills. I told her we would be happy to deposit it, but she should really take those to a coin shop and see if they would offer her more than face value. She was so confused, but took our advice. She returned an hour later with a check for a considerable amount more than face value.
Also had another lady one time bring in some old gold coins. Same story as above. She had no idea they were gold and was very thankful we didn't take her for a ride.
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United States
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I had a lady one time bring in a couple of stacks of brand new 1928 $100 bills... Also had another lady one time bring in some old gold coins... You did a good job there!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
676 Posts |
Nasty heavily damaged and clipped coins, usually get at least a few every time I hunt machine wrapped rolls, but not always.   Edited by Khromtau
08/12/2023 10:48 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2910 Posts |
#1: getting someone else's dumps - I assume most here also hate this one... Of course, if you're heavily into searching halves, getting them is to be expected most of the time.
#2: nasty tellers and/or managers (thankfully, those have been few and far between)...
#3: shorted rolls - though I've limited that damage by bringing a little scale to me to banks where it has proven to be a recurrent event.
#4: one which has only occurred with me with one teller and one branch - a teller who would insist on putting a magnet over every nickel roll I turn into him... I always pull foreign coins and told him so on more than one occasion... really felt like bringing a couple of full rolls of magnetic Canadian nickels as a gag and turn them into him just to make a point. Now I just avoid said teller and let someone else service me when I go to that branch.
#5: heavily taped-up rolls. It's fine if someone puts one piece of tape on the end of rolls to keep the coins in place, but it's quite another when there are four or five pieces of tape on both ends... For example, yesterday (and a few other times), I purchased rolls of coins with so much tape on them that I had to destroy the wrappers to get the coins out - very time-consuming and wasteful as I always recycle the rolls I buy (unless they're in bad shape to begin with).
CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
Edited by John77
08/13/2023 1:01 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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One of my pet peeves is heavily damaged, zinc rotted and dirty, sticky coins.
Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The one type that we all despised of, including myself, are the guys searching just for silver. We had one guy who ordered $3,000 in halfs, which was fine. However, when the Brink's boxes were wrapped in clear plastic he just went to the lobby, looked through the sides, pulled one silver, then promptly wanted to return them. He was a bit arrogant about it and I flat out denied it. Never saw him again. Made me smile... |
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Valued Member
United States
405 Posts |
Local competition.
I had my turf invaded a few months ago and now have to drive a bit farther to escape the interloper's reach.
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