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Valued Member
United States
469 Posts |
Grocery stores are good as I have had luck and also have had luck with Barns and Nobel. Just about any place that make a lot of change each day is a good possibility. I check my change when I make purchases and the new coins really stand out. I usually get to purchase a role or 2 when I notice them. Every now and then I get the look of what the heck do you want role of these for?
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Valued Member
United States
497 Posts |
i have tried it. I never seem to get anything good though since I can't get large quanities
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2734 Posts |
I get a roll of Dimes "for the copier" (even though I haven't used a Xerox-style copier since I got my first PC scanner back in 1998!).  The Nickel and Cent rolls are for "gambling on the hill" (local slang for going to casinos in Black Hawk and Central City). Yes, there are many coin-op slot machines there, from small $1 coins down to the Nickel Slots and "Penny Slots". (which are more popular than ever in the recession). No, I don't use BU Shield Cent rolls for the Penny Slots...  |
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 United States
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No, I don't use BU Shield Cent rolls for the Penny Slots.. Why not? If you are going to gamble, you should be "All in!"  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
I'm going to ask about the Coinstar machine in my grocery store...that seems like a good place to get some unsearched stuff.I also saw a fundraiser that was asking for pennies toward breast cancer research, so I called the girl and she agreed to let me search the coins before she turns them in.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2734 Posts |
I wish I owned a casino with Penny Slots. Imagine how much copper is going into those things!  Every mixed roll of Cents I've had this year has had from four to 20+ Copper Cents, and one grocery store roll I got two months ago was all Copper LMC's. The thought of someone gambling away Copper LMC's (or worse, Wheaties) would send chills through this forum's copper hoarders...  I myself stick to a strict "searched, and zinc-only" regimen... |
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Valued Member
United States
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I was at the grocery store recently and when the cashiers drawer popped open while I was checking out, I noticed all the cent rolls had nice shiny shields showing so I asked if I could "trade" one for two quarters. It wasn't a problem but I usually keep my roll transactions in the bank.
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Valued Member
United States
87 Posts |
I'm having trouble getting rolls; from anywhere. Even my bank said they couldn't get them unless I ordered them and then they couldn't even order halves. I asked about their coin counting machine and they said the coins are used almost immediately. Have you all had good luck with banks that you don't have accounts with?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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On the other hand, a bank's business is to supply our financial needs Common misconception. A banks business is to make money. Typically by making loans. In order to attract the capital they need to make those loans they offer safe "storage" of your money. Day to day servicing of their customers financial needs is merely a courtesy to keep their customer happy. It is not their "business". Servicing those needs is actually a monetary loss for the banks and no one deliberately creates a business to make a loss. |
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United States
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Valued Member
United States
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The most cooperative banks I've found around here (NE Oklahoma) is Arvest, even if Idon't have an account with them.
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Valued Member
United States
87 Posts |
thanks herbaby... I am assuming that it is a small private bank.
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New Member
Canada
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TORONTO — Canada's five biggest banks raked in a combined $9.89 billion in profits during the third quarter, as analysts shifted their focus from sour oilpatch loans to a possible housing downturn. - The Canadian Press I don't think the banks, at least in Canada, are hurting that much from those "monetary losing" financial needs that they supply their customers with, to keep them happy! |
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New Member
United States
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hehe, I know this is an old thread and I'm a bit on the other side of the coin roll story, but I was just dropping off my taxes the other day at the post office and the young kid teller was ignoring the older gent teller when he asked for a couple bucks worth of quarters for his drawer. I stepped out to the car and returned with a roll of shiny new(ish) copper clad quarters I had wrapped recently and traded him for a ten. He was thrilled and I was lighter the sorted coins I was already done with. The kid was all "really?" :D
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There is a gas station where I live that sells me rolls of pennies. I know the owner very well. It is a family run gas station. I have found some wheat pennies and some 2009 pennies. I save all of the 2009 pennies because they were made only one year and I think are low mintage.
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Posted 10/19/2010 12:56 pm
