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Valued Member
United States
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Earlier this week, I drove to a bank branch after a teller answered my telephone call and told me the bank had a large number of customer-wrapped half dollar rolls. When she brought them from the vault I saw that they actually were dollar coins. This is the third or fourth time this has happened to me. On one occasion, a teller insisted that she had handed me half dollar rolls until a more experienced colleague told her the rolls contained dollar coins.
Do any CRHs have advice about how to make sure a teller has correctly identified half dollar rolls when you call and ask about their inventory? Many banks require the teller to go to a vault to determine what kind of coins are stored there. It seems rude for me to ask them if they know the difference between the two kinds of coins.
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 United States
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I guess they cannot read the writing on the rolls?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bring back the "big dollar" coins, like the Ikes!
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United States
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Bring back the "big dollar" coins, like the Ikes!   I know it will never happen, but a man can dream.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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All in favor of more dollar coins, but please not the insipid Ike design.
Edited by Coinfrog
11/13/2024 6:44 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think that you just have to check them when you get them. I do find that astonishing though, considering that it is to your advantage!
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Valued Member
 United States
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Oriole: The tellers many not be experienced enough to recognize the difference between dollar rolls and half dollars rolls -- but in all cases they expected me to pay the price shown on the incorrect rolls: i.e., $25 per roll, not $10 per roll.
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United States
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"Buy the roll not the wrapper?"  "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
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Just be thankful you can be connected to a live person at the branch...here in southern California all AI. (press 1 for balance..press 2 to change accounts...press 3 to transfer funds.............)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Both rolls are probably seldom seen, I wouldn't fret too much about an error made by someone trying to help you. You're lucky they answered your call and answered your question.
My bank doesn't take rolled coins without running them through a coin counter, so no customer wrapped coins at all.
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United States
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... but please not the insipid Ike design. Booooo!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I Like Ike.
"We are all flawed, some MD and some PMD." NYI |
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United States
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I Like Ike. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Easy one. I just carry an example coin or roll to show them. Reminds me of the time I visited a small town bank asking for a box of dime rolls. The young teller disappeared for several minutes and returned with a box. "That will be five dollars please." The box was full of empty dime rolls.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Easy one. I just carry an example coin or roll to show them. Good idea.  Quote:
Reminds me of the time I visited a small town bank asking for a box of dime rolls. The young teller disappeared for several minutes and returned with a box. "That will be five dollars please." The box was full of empty dime rolls. Oh my.   |
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Posted 11/13/2024 4:55 pm
