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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Amazing how this story worked out, but I do wonder if they caught you on security cameras, though.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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That is one amazing story! Glad it turned out well.  Is there any other threads on this forum that have other coin related stories that are unusual/weird?(Aside from tragic ones.There's enough tragedy going on around us already)I love these stories that have happy endings  "IN THE TRASH BIN!"  I guess what I'm asking is,is there a post/thread JUST FOR "unusual coin stories."  Edited by collectall
10/25/2010 6:21 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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That...has to be one of the weirdest stories I've ever heard. Glad it had a good ending.
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Valued Member
United States
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wow - thats incredible.. I guess the lesson is make sure what someone takes to the bank... and two perhaps cardboard boxes aren't the best thing... I'm still surprised though that the teller didn't notice the heft of the box.. would be curious to see what the bank tapes showed. You could approach it not even from a fact that they were silver, but just that your girlfriend didn't get the right amount back.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd let it drop - I can't imagine banks approve of dumpster diving and even if it's not illegal it might get you some unwanted attention.
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Valued Member
United States
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Well after reading all of the messages regarding your silver coins I put the blame entirely on the bank teller. I mean they work with coinage day after day and are totally aware as to how heavy a multitude of coins can be. It would just take some common sense and a few brain cells to look into the heavy box to see what is in it. I'm still confused as to how your girlfriend ended up with your silver coins in the first place. I take it that you didn't want them cashed in at the bank, so why did she have them?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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"Well after reading all of the messages regarding your silver coins I put the blame entirely on the bank teller. I mean they work with coinage day after day and are totally aware as to how heavy a multitude of coins can be. It would just take some common sense and a few brain cells to look into the heavy box to see what is in it. I'm still confused as to how your girlfriend ended up with your silver coins in the first place. I take it that you didn't want them cashed in at the bank, so why did she have them?"
well, the story is:
I'm in a rush, getting ready for a hike, and my gf calls and asks if there's anything she can do to help me out. so I say something like, 'yeah, I need to drop off the coins we went through the other day for cash and I don't think i'll make it in time.' the gf had them bc we live separately for now, and I brought a bunch over when I spent the night at her house bc she is getting interested in the whole coin hunting thing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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"Amazing how this story worked out, but I do wonder if they caught you on security cameras, though."
oh, I'm sure they did catch me on their cameras, but all in all they're still my coins and the bank didn't pay the face value for them.
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New Member
Canada
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Shocking that this person actually stayed with their girlfriend after she almost cost him $40,000 worth of silver at the time.
Well if he married her and she divorces him he will lose a lot more of it then that now anyway.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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this is a weird story and doesn't make sense. How can your coins be in a dumpster? Bank tellers have to count their money at the end of the day.......
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This story is very strange. The GF depositing the coins by mistake can be understood assuming that the OP doesn't tell her about the silver coins and doesn't communicate.
However, the bit about the coins being found in the dumpster (mostly in a very neat pile) behind the bank after hours indicates that something is very wrong. Parking a car behind the bank to do dumpster diving would certainly invite an inquisitive police car or two. Not to mention that the coins were there. Sounds like a teller was misbehaving. To say the very least someone had to be cahoots.
Something very fishy about the story. The outcome is good but this whole thing has the earmarks of a good drinking story. Totally unbelievable that it worked out this way.
If it is true it is best to let sleeping dogs lay and not to have a conversation with the bank.
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United States
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I was thinking the same thing. The dumpster is a key place for people to stash removed items from stores, warehouses (and now maybe banks) and pick them up before the garbage run is made. It appears this was the case here too. I would suspect the teller if this was in fact done.
I think ghostriders advice is good. Count yourself lucky that you retrieved your silver and don't raise the issue with the bank. You can however innocently target this teller and find out if he/she has any knowledge about coins and in particular silver. I chat up all the tellers at banks to see if their are any collectors or silver spotters (and I also check with the local coin dealers/bullion buyers to see which local banks have tellers come in) so I know if someone is pulling coins/silver or not. If this teller has knowledge then your situation looks more like a grab than an accident.
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Bedrock of the Community
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If there had been a bank robbery over the weekend, how many crims would have thought of looking in a dumpster to find your silver stash? For this period only, your silver would have been in the safest place!  |
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