Silver Dollar Searching

Actually they probably can order the large size dollars and get them if the local Fed branch has them on hand. The problem is the form the banks use to order coins and currency from the Fed does not have a space on the form for them. (They have a line for cents, for nickels, dimes etc. There is a line for the small size dollars but not the large ones. I knew a bank though that was able to get them simply by writing in their own line for the large size dollars. Most banks would not think to try doing that but if you could get the vault teller at you bank to try it you might be able to get Ikes that way. No promises. You have to figure though that the banks kep sending them back to the Fed, and the Fed doesn't melt them down so they have to be somewhere. They don't leave the Fed again most likely simply because they are never ordered. If you could get the bank to actually write in the request and order them it might work.

The silver ones show up now and then. I pulled ten from a teller once. She had $40 in Ikes that day. That was a strange day, I also had a different teller hand me an 1826 dollar. It was drilled but I didn't care!

Maine_Jim

Why not? Its not like you stand to lose much besides time. LOL

Very nice!

Love the picture.