Roll Hunters Code Of Conduct

UHHH, rule number nine, don't short the bank. Nothing peez me off more than finding a roll of coins that's short 1-2 coins on a regular basis.

I specifically opened an account at a bank that had a change machine. I picked up from one bank, search them, take the bag of them to another bank. Never rerolling them. Odds of you getting the same coins back are very low and you don't have to reroll the coins.

Waredu - You can easily tell if your banks are serviced by the same courier, just as them. Even if both banks are serviced by the same courier, the coins that are counted through the machine are going to go back to brinks in bulk where they will be mixed with coins from other banks before they are rerolled with all of those other coins and boxed up. Yes, its possible that you might get some back, but you're also getting a mix from other banks.

You're odds of getting a batch that you're previously searched are much lower than if your picking up and dropping off at the same bank. Besides, the amount of time and headache that you save by not having to reroll the coins is priceless.

For about a year I actually marked every coin I searched, just so I could keep track if I got the same coins back or not.

I think most of the rolls I return to the bank go back to the reserve anyway to be machine wrapped. I sure wish there was a way to know ahead of time though. I went through 2 boxes of Lincolns ($50) and found one wheat. One! I don't think I have every had that bad of luck before.

Regularly getting coins from a bank where you aren't a client can be asking for trouble (at least if you call being asked to go elsewhere 'trouble'), but it's not necessarily going to be an issue if it's just the odd time. I've had pretty good luck with small town banks in that regard.

Many roll searchers will suggest not trying to trade boxes at a single bank and I've generally stuck by that, especially considering that the teller will be making two trips with that heavy load, just for the bank to end up with the same amount of coins as before.

Mentioning finding silver etc is not necessarily a bad thing, I've had a teller sell me a silver dime he had found for face value because he had no particular interest in that sort of thing himself. Tellers who spend company time searching coins are something for the bank manager to worry about, not so much you as a searcher as long as you can go elsewhere. If the pickings are very slim at any one bank then you might only dump coins there. In general though I try not to bore the teller with details of what I'm doing if they aren't curious enough to ask.

I also agree with the poster who said that not shorting the bank should be rule number one. Really it's your fellow customers who get shorted in most cases, any any complaints might make the bank less willing to take rolled coins.

I often return my coins to the same bank I purchased them. I have an account there and they happily exchange my pennies for me. They know I collect coins (with my daughter) and they think its kinda funny that we search every roll. I'm always polite and offer to carry the boxes for them. They are just serving a customer as they would any other customer. And as mentioned, we never short change the bank. Like most, I end up adding more coins as I'm the one being shorted.

Cheers

There's a pretty big difference between trying to trade coins for coins in the same visit, and alternately purchasing/dumping at the same bank but on different visits. The latter is something that a lot of sorters seem to do with no problems. Coins for coins is certainly a more 'unusual' request and there's probably a greater risk of eventually being asked to take your coin dealings elsewhere, even if you have an account. On another site geared to penny sorting I believe one of the highest volume sorters mentioned trading boxes for boxes with at least one bank. In his case he had a commercial rolling machine, so the bank was ending up with rolls that their commercial customers liked a lot more than the customer wrapped (and frequently shorted) variety.