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New Member
Canada
11 Posts |
Today I went to my bank and bought 4 rolls of dimes to try and fill up the holes in some of my sets.
Anyhow, I took the rolls home and started to open the first one when to my shock the first 2 coins on either end were dimes and the rest were pennies. I carefully pulled back the brown paper wrapper on the other 3 and sure enough they were all like that. I returned to the bank to the same teller and showed her the scam that someone had pulled. She actually went into the vault to get these. I asked her to check the others in that same bunch. Sure enough she peeled back the paper on about 6 more of them and they were all the same. Then came the manager who apolgized and said these were sent out from head office.
This was with CIBC. So, just a heads up to everyone.
I received my different rolls and I opened them right there to ensure that they were in fact all dimes, and they were.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
636 Posts |
Im assuming they were paper rolls. That being the case I'm surprised the banks dont force thedepositors to use clear rolls only.
On another note, cant they weigh these things as well?
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Valued Member
Canada
351 Posts |
Wow, tough times call for drastic measures for some people.
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New Member
 Canada
11 Posts |
You'd think that the banks would have more security in place than "the trust system".
I agree, the dimes should all be rolled in plastic due to the fact that the pennies and dimes are almost the same size.
These ones were rolled in the brown paper wrappers that are somewhat lose, hence the pennies fitting in these types of rolls meant for dimes.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1923 Posts |
Pretty good return $o.68 for $5.00
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
610 Posts |
U N B E L I E V A B L E! That is outrageous.I get rolls from CIBC too. Almost all are missing 1 or 2.(Examples: 2 rolls of dimes I got once had 2 short in EACH roll. 1 quarter roll had a metal slug 1 had one of those flat batteries. Not to mention various foreign coins AND I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING RIPPED OFF. Some will do anything these days to make a PENNY.  In your case  !! Well at least it was resolved! (Scary to even do roll searching isn't it ?) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
532 Posts |
For a change I got a box of nickels from my local wells fargo to go through.
I sat down and spread out, went through the rolls and made various stacks and sorted by decade. Then by years, then by mints. I found various goodies and so on. The point of my post is when I completed the proccess and went to re-roll everything I was almost an entire roll short.
I double counted and was in a controlled environment. Nope I got shorted.
3 Candians, and 2 knock outs from electrical boxes included in the mix.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
532 Posts |
And almost forgot- The box was sealed and rolls were wrapped in the clear plastic wrappers. Go figure.
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Valued Member
Australia
465 Posts |
i opened three rolls of 20c (australian) yesterday and got 3 from New Zealand. Nice coins though - not complaining. Trying to collect all the NZ coins just from circulation in Tasmania. This is a long shot. :-)
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Valued Member
Canada
287 Posts |
Well, I expect nothing less from Crooks In Banker's Clothing. That place is the Crappiest Institute for Banking in Canada. Sorry to hear about your troubles.
Edited by rikcando
10/29/2009 11:59 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1051 Posts |
Never trust an institution that has the ability to conjure as much money into existence as it's customers can borrow.
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Valued Member
Canada
386 Posts |
Short rolls is a common problem at all banks.
It happens less with paper rolls, but is very common with plastic rolls.
There is a simple reason for this coin short problem.
Take nickels for example:
Pre-1982 Cdn nickels are 1.70 mm thick
Post-1981 Cdn nickels are 1.76 mm thick
That extra 0.06 mm becomes 2.4 mm after 40 nickels are stacked or takes the room away from 1.5 nickels.
This explains why some plastic holders are always short one nickel, because there is not enough room. They were designed for older nickels.
It gets worse if any US nickels are present, they are 1.95 mm thick.
Same issue exists with dimes. It is not a problem with pennies because they became thinner after 1981.
This is why I prefer the cardboard tube holders with the fold-in end.
They accomodate all thicknesses of coins.
Edited by 1945V
10/30/2009 08:22 am
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Valued Member
Canada
304 Posts |
Snowy,
A horrible experience...but I'm impressed you went right back to the branch and even more impressed they took this seriously AND found more in the vault AND admitted they were responsible! I would expect the manager of a chartered Cdn bank to come out, deny everything, treat the customer with suspicion and conduct a private investigation.
I'm sickened by what happened to you but glad you were treated this well by the bank...silver lining on every cloud!
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Valued Member
Canada
53 Posts |
I'm a bit surprised that those rolls actually came in a shipment from another bank. Most banks seem to pass off customer wrapped rolls to other customers without checking them, but I've never seen anything that bad. Dimes are pretty common in penny rolls though so it seems to even out in the long run.
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Valued Member
Canada
372 Posts |
I have a coinmaster made in Canada to sort out my pocket change.I always place my loose change in the appropriate slots and found out that when it is full(no more room to add another coin)the 25¢ slot is not large enough to accomodate 40 but only 39.Same for the dimes,49 instead of 50.
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Valued Member
Australia
138 Posts |
Whenever I was roll searching I would often come up short but I would just email the Royal Bank and complain and they would always credit my account. Sure the amounts were always small but at least they took the time to fix anything whenever I was short.
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Posted 10/29/2009 10:04 pm
