Lots Of Pennies?help please?

You can get a $25 box from your bank for, well, $25. That is a s cheap as your gonna get them. You can find everything from 2010 cents to Indian Heads and a few Canadian cents, don't look to find the Indian often though. I have only found four of those in nearly 30 years.

"free" might be a bit much to expect.

plus every penny you buy from the bank for 1 cent that is older than 1982 has 2.9 cents of copper in it!

my bank wont let me order boxes of cents... anybody else have this problem?

Becoming more and more common problem. If you have a buisness that requires coinage, you need to present this info to a bank ant only then will they order coins for you.
In my area all banks that I know of do not take in nor pass out bulk coins of any types anymore. Even if you have accounts there. I use to get half dollars all the time and now nothing. Bank of America, Chase and lots of others no longer play around with people playing coin changing games. By this I mean the people that take bulk out of one bank, go though it, return to another bank and all for free. This takes time and costs the banks money so they are starting policies that no longer allow this practice. Now if you have bulk coins they will take them, send them out for counting and enter the total in or account and you pay for that. NO ACCOUNT? Then the cost goes up.
Another reason is the rash of idiots that save money on the short roll methods. They take coins in rolls to banks and there is usually one or two coins short per roll. Not noticable at first if all the rolls are the same size since they are all short the same amount. No;w banks are sending these out for counting so they must be broaken open and then counted and again there is a price for that service.
As a beginner I suggest you take coppercoins up on his offer. He would probably start you off with more good stuff than you could ever find in tons of coins from the bank.

Very generous of you coppercoins

I have 3 different accounts with 3 different banks. I've never had a problem ordering boxes, or grabbing customer-wrapped rolls from any of them.

I get the majority of my boxes through BofA. My local branch does a heavy volume of merchant banking. I opened up a "free" checking account with them for $20.00. They give me coin bags whenever I need them. I stopped buying wrappers long ago. All I have to do is put $50.00 worth of loose coins into the bag, seal it up with my account information on it...and swap it for 2 more boxes. The merchant tellers don't even ask me to swipe my card anymore. Heck, they're even saving every wheat they find throughout the day and selling it to me for face when I go in.

I can only think I've been as lucky as I've been because I've been completly honest with them. They know that I'm roll-hunting, and the accounts manager knows why I opened the account.

A fresh box of doughnuts on a Sat. morning every once in awhile doesn't hurt either imho.