Depositing Coins Into Dump Bank After Roll Hunting?

I have been told by several tellers at Wells Fargo that they do not accept coins.... I thought this very strange after all they are a bank. I talked with customer support and it was confirmed that they do not accept coins. However several of my local branches do not seem to have been informed. I have no problem dumping 1 or 2 boxes of half dollars a week. The only issue I have had is the the supermarket branches have small safes and sometimes they will refuse the boxes because there is no room. I use Chase for my metal detecting finds as they don't seem to care what state the coins are in.

At the banks we can spot collectors really easily. They should have known that you were collecting and looking through them.

Don't always think that just because you to a cash exchange that it isn't recorded that you did it. Everything that we do for a customer dealing with our cash drawers is put into our computers, in case there is an offage in our drawers we have to know what cash has gone in and out of our drawer.

It is becoming more common at bank branches to not have coin counters, which is why most of us do not accept loose coin. We are able to have bags of coins (mixed or not mixed) sent to our armored car service and they will count the coins and let us know the amount and then we will credit your account for that amount. We do charge $5 to be able to do that because that is the exact amount we (the bank) are charged by the armored car service. We do have a couple of branches in our city that have coin counters and we don't charge for that, but if the customer doesn't want to go to those branches we can either ship the coin out for a fee or the customer has to have the coins already rolled.

The best thing to do is let your bank know what your doing. We are much more willing to do extra things for customers when we know what to expect. If we know you will come in and get a certain amount of coins and redeposit or exchange those coins, we can prepare things and be more likely to have what you want on hand. Each bank has a certain limit to how much money we can have in a branch at a time and we try to keep only the amount we actually need on hand.

My credit union has a coin counting machine (no fee) in the lobby. Dump in the coins, get a voucher, deposit it or collect the cash.

I keep an account just for my coin purchases and to use the service.

IF you do find a place that will accept bulk coins, use them as fast as you can. More and more banks are stopping accepting coins in large quantites. By me Bank of America, Chase, Charter One and a few smaller ones all have stopped accepting coinage in quantities to large for a fast teller count. At Bank of America I have been told that any branches with coin counters can use them until they break down. Then they must be thrown out. Bank of America by me will still take coins but they will bag them and send them out for counting. Naturally there is a fee for this. The amount will be intered into your account withing a few weeks. NO ACCOUNT? Then the fees go up and you really have to wait for your cash. Charter One just says NO. Chase is going to start the same as Bank of America soon but until then, no bulk coins.
Rolls will also be a higher fee since all rolls will have to be opened to be counted. This takes manpower and someone has to pay for that service.
Some of the reasons are the constant individuals with no purpose with coinage except to buy them, look through them, return the left overs over and over and over. This takes up tellers time and who pays for that? Another biggy is the latest craze of short rolls. Every roll is either short one or two coins or have a washer placed in the middle. Such rolls returned to a bank will have a larger fee inacted.
Many have brought in bulk coins to a bank during rush type hours tying up tellers and creating long lines which irritates normal, regular customers there to do everyday transactions.
Stop in realize how this coin collecting increased amount lately has placed a monitary burden on the banking people. Someone must pay for tellers time to handle constant flows of coins in and out and in and out.
One sort of funny story was when I asked, at Bank of America, about these procedures was when I said what if I brought in 1 half dollar. A teller said it would have to be sent out for counting and the amount, minus a fee, would be entered into my account. Banks rules Sir.

I guess I have it pretty good, based on some of the coin dumping horror stories I have heard! I dump in two locations in my town. My bank is a very small bank, and while they are happy to order coin for me at no fee, they really would rather not have to take in what I have looked through. And, since I have a fantastic relationship with this bank, I totally respect that. So, I return about half of my nickels and all of my half dollars to one Chase branch. I don't have an account with them anymore, but the folks at this branch don't know that! I give them anywhere from $100-$200 in nickels and over $1000 in half dollars per week. All coin rolled; they have no counters. The other half of my nickels and all of my cents I bring to a different bank (also one where I have no account) that has a counting machine in the lobby. I give them $100-$200 in nickels and about $50 in cents per week. Dump them in the machine, pull out the receipt, sign it, go to a teller, get my cash. Works pretty good!