Got Morgans From The Bank Today!

I found a morgan in circulation once, a heavily damaged 1880 in ag from a coin machine. Your find is simply amazing though,two or three of those seem to be in au/bu condition. When I was a bank teller myself, if people deposited coins of numismatic or bullion value I would warn them that they might be worth premium if they took them to a dealer. However if people were depositing a few wheats or a single silver dime/quarter I wouldnt tell them as they most likely received it in their pocket change. On the reverse side I would always make every attempt possible to try to get silver coins from my fellow tellers, who were ignorant of the coins worth. Most people under 30 have no idea that silver was ever in coins at all, less that coins could actually be worth more than face.

Excellent finds!
-XoG

This is awesome.I am a teller at a bank and find some of the most amazing stuff, usually when auditing our coin counter. Tips for those looking for rare coins: you are more likely to find them at banks that use older coin machines that they service themselves. If the machine is in the lobby, these are serviced by outside companies and the tellers never see the contents. Also our old machine tends to accept things it shouldn't; silver coins, foriegn coins,ect. I have found amazing money as well as very old foriegn coins like Lira. Items worth far more than the face value, most of my tellers just dump coins from the container the customer brings, and wouldn't recognize a valuable one if it bit them in the hand.

Amazing find there. I stumbled on a similar find in halves last month. A solid roll of Walkers, one of Bens and one mixed. I was amazed that they were just handed to me. The halves I can kinda see happening as I've been roll searching a while and after getting them so often am not surprised but never a Morgan - that is truly something. Congrats - and I can't see how anyone would just turn in those.

Maine_Jim