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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good to know there are still some great finds out there, and all you have to do is ask!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1666 Posts |
Yea that sounds like a find too good to be true.
I know here in the US you would be hard pressed to find any bank teller that does not recognize old silver coins. As rare as it is to find them coming to a bank in such quantity, it would have been quickly exchanged for current coinage by the lucky teller or manager.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
629 Posts |
Yah, you know there would have to be 2 stupid un-informed people in the world (teller and Grandma) and I can't imagine that with all the hype on metal values that a teller or someone at the bank would recognize that some old lady just ripped herself off with that exchange.
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Valued Member
Canada
475 Posts |
Find this one hard to believe................urban legend of the numismatic world?
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
535 Posts |
not a legend... I live in a small town with a large senior population. The bank teller is a friend of mine and has no interest in collecting or trying to resell silver coins. I don't care if no one thinks this happened, but I have the coins in my collection and that is all that matters to me
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1666 Posts |
I share that same attitude, it works.
However, for the future.... pics or it didn't happen. =)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
593 Posts |
I dont doubt the story at all.A few weeks ago here in the US I got an 1866 S Seated Liberty in a handfull of teller halves.people who dont know any better regularly cash in silver coins and some of us get lucky and find them
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Moderator
 Canada
10460 Posts |
It is well worth the efforts to befriend those who handle money. My bank tellers always are on the lookout for me, and I give them cool gifts, like nickel dollars and 1954 or 1967 circulated dollar notes for their kids. They also have accepted me cashing in rolls of nickel dollars and 50c coins, whereas some banks might provide some friction with that.
Case in point, earlier this year I got two rolls of 25c coins from my bank. They were wrapped in tin foil. All of them were silver, most were George V and Edward VII coins, average grade was probably G-4, some dates were unreadable. The tellers saw them, and set them aside for me. I paid face value for the rolls, and treated my tellers to free lattes from Starbucks... all of us were happy....
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Valued Member
Canada
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Lot of science fiction in this thread. With silver and gold so much in the every day news you would have to be from a different planet NOT to check whats coming in to the bank! Rolls in tin foil? The banks out here would not even accept them until opened and counted. I have been at this over 45 years, and in the last ten I can count on one hand how many silver coins I have plucked out of rolls or change. Here is a realistic account. One US clad half 1968, two 1968 Canada silver 25 cents, a 1964 Canada ten cents and a 1966 Canada 25 cents. All this in ten years and I will bet that kind of result is the norm.
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Canada
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It is a matter of being at the right place, at the right time. Also, the tellers at my bank actively look and set aside stuff for me. They probably handle in one month what you handle in one decade. Some people have no clue that old Canadian money once contained silver... it has been 43 years now...
Another recent example, at the grocery store, my daughter always makes a beeline to the Coinstar machine, to look for loose change for her piggy bank. She usually finds a few pennies, nickels and dimes on the floor around the machine. About 3 months ago, she came to me with a small handful (8-10 coins), and she said they were neat, because they had a fish on them (1967 10c silver). Someone had dumped a whole pile of old change into the Coinstar machine, silver coins and all, and didn't even care about the spillage...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
535 Posts |
This is getting foolish. People such as 54Dollarcoin and Colhand1 doubting that this is true. Well plain and simple is, I am not a liar as you insinuate. These coins are in my possession. I have four friends who are bank tellers. None of them have interest in collecting coins. They deal with money all day long and do not want it as a hobby.They are not from another planet, just not interested. Therefore they set these coins or notes aside for people like me.Where I live, the price of silver has NEVER been mentioned in the news. I have been getting coins and notes from these friends for almost 30 years. Most times I only get two or three items and some months I get nothing, but I do check in once a month. So please stop calling me a liar.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Come on guys. I have found lots of silver at banks.like he says it helps to have friends who are tellers.I seem to find more 68's now with the metal push, I think thats cause everyone thinks the last year for silver was 67.how bout a good 1937 $20 from a bank teller, heck yea it does happen. Good score timmick What town are you from LOL  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
629 Posts |
As a bank teller or other person working in the bank. They need to be completely honest with the bank to protect their job. To be able to freely exchange money for what's in their purse or wallet would be construed as being somewhat dishonest, therefore putting their job in peril.
So they save the coins for you, how nice.
I would hope that you reward them in some way to keep them interested in saving these little gems for you.
I can imagine your excitement when you got that gift.
I belong to a coin club as there are others there that share my excitement and understand the chase can be rewarding. Whereas family members yawn like banktellers since they really don't take the time to figure it out for themselves.
We coin collectors are sceptical only because it sounds too good to be true.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
593 Posts |
Timnic dont get upset about these people I dont doubt you found it When I posted my find of the 1866 Seated Liberty on another site I received all sorts of this type of crap. The fact is if you coin roll hunt regularly you are going to find some real nice coins I know I am pushing 1000 silver coins found coin roll hunting.Enjoy you finds
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Valued Member
Canada
475 Posts |
as they say in "Storage Wars" yuuuuuuuuuuupp!
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