<< <i>Saturday morning I returned my box of halves I searched (No silver) to the bank. When I finished an elderly lady was waiting to use the machine.
She asked me if the machine counts accurately? Absolutely, it never misses.
I noticed she had 3 bags of nickels, dimes and quarters. I asked her if she checked for silver coins.
What do you mean she said. I told her that the dimes and quarters Pre-1965 were silver.
She says, "Do you mean I have to look through all these? I have $125 in quarters"
I said, "Well, you don't have to you can just dump them in the machine but I will give you at least 10 x's face for them."
"I will give you a dollar for the dimes and $2.50 for the quarters."
We can sit down here at this table and looked through them it will only take a few minutes.
She says, "Da mn, I saw some 1945's in there, I don't have time for this."
I will tell you what, you take them home and go through them. I am the manager of the gas station next door. You pull out the pre-1965 coins and I will buy them from you.
She put the nickels in the machine and grumpily left with the dimes and quarters. I guess I ruined her Saturday.
There are a lot of people who have no understanding that there is real silver in coins or NO gold in the Golden dollars.
I too check the Coinstar daily. Once I found the return slot full, my two pockets were weighed down.
Found the usual, Canadian, Foreign, and Wheaties. IIRC there was around $8
Joe >>
Some folks just don't care, at least twice a month someone would come into the bank and make a coin deposit, deposit gold and silver certs. etc. The tellers would try to enlightened them and always to no avail. These items soon became property of the bank employees. After a couple tellers would call me out to assist knowing I was a collector I told them to give it up. You can't talk sense to someone who doesn't want to hear it. One of those things I had to learn not to feel guilty about.
Guilty here. I also check the COin star machine. Found a 1964 quarter about a year ago. My son, who is not really into coins but knows some of the basics, called me about a month ago and asked if a 1923-S merc. was worth anything.............and he found it in the slot of the coinstar machine. I told him 'not too much' but nice find anyway ( and not to spend it). It would be fun to go thru a machine's contents at some time. I find it handy not to have to re-roll coins from the bank and the machine I use gives gift cards to retailers at full value. And they are retailers (ie Lowe's hardware) that I use!
This CoinStar machine spitting out full-value gift certificates for places like Amazon, Lowe's, and others, must be something new-ish.. I noticed it on their Web site over the weekend..
Friend of mine was in a bank and the person in line ahead of him was either exchanging or depositing some old $500.00 bills!.. He's more a currency / stamp collector than a coin collector, but he can spot a $500.00 or $1000.00 bill from 20398203981 miles away.. after the fool who deposited or exchanged some $500.00 bills left, he BEGGED the teller to sell those notes to him.. she refused, saying "We have to turn those in.. bank policy".. or something like that..
Maybe ten years ago or longer, I was in a certain Las Vegas casino, which has a convention center attached to it.. killing time waiting for the doors of a computer convention in another part of the building to open.. so I'm meandering around, trying to resist the siren call of VP machines, and I walked past an ATM.. it was the older-style - they used to suck your card in, read the strip, and spit it back out.. they didn't use swipers like modern ones do.. and the modern ones go back to the "please swipe your card" screen after whoever last used it walks away.. no.. someone hadn't left their card in the spitting-out slot.. no, they hadn't left cash in the "here's your cash" slot".. but on the screen, it said "Would you like another transaction?".. umm.. uhh.. err..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
After cashing in my winning Calif. Super Lotto ticket at the Manager's desk at the local supermarket.. hit three out of six.. paid $11.00.. had I hit all six numbers on my ticket, it would've been $22 million.. sigh.. I checked the CoinStar machine right next to the desk, as I always do.. Score!..
What's the melt value of a 90% Silver Dime with Silver at $18.40 an ounce?.. I just took a stupid pill.. let's see.. a tenth of an ounce would be $1.84 minus 10% so let's round it up to $1.70-ish.. so $3.40-ish worth of Silver just for bothering to reach into the slot..
Well, that's worth 1/2 a
If I lived within walking distance of the store, I'd check that machine daily.. but I don't..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
<< <i>I'm still wondering about the bakery rack near the restrooms. >>
They prune through the mile-long bakery aisle for anything that expires "tomorrow", say a $3.50 loaf of premium bread, and put a "Manager's special" sticker on it for $1.00 or even 50 cents.. and put it on this very tall rack on wheels with many shelves.. what's on that rack varies from day to day.. today they had a lot of un-sold Halloween cookies and cakes and such.. along with all kinds of bread, buns, muffins, bagels, you name it.. ...this morning I picked up a few loaves of premium brand multi-grain bread, cinnamon bread, sourdough bread, and sliced pound cake, all of it at anywhere from 1/3 to 1/4 the regular price.. stick a loaf of bread in the refrigerator and it'll last for a couple of weeks.. stick it in the freezer, it'll last for months.. leave it out at room temperature, and it'll start growng green fuzz after ten days or so.. >>
Great bread thread here!
Glad I stumbled across this one...
"Gem EOR toners are tangible evidence that the Eighth Dimension does indeed exist." ---Ambrose Bierce, while attending a Heritage Auction at the 1907 Long Beach show
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<< <i>Saturday morning I returned my box of halves I searched (No silver) to the bank.
When I finished an elderly lady was waiting to use the machine.
She asked me if the machine counts accurately? Absolutely, it never misses.
I noticed she had 3 bags of nickels, dimes and quarters. I asked her if she checked for silver coins.
What do you mean she said. I told her that the dimes and quarters Pre-1965 were silver.
She says, "Do you mean I have to look through all these? I have $125 in quarters"
I said, "Well, you don't have to you can just dump them in the machine but I will give you at least 10 x's face for them."
"I will give you a dollar for the dimes and $2.50 for the quarters."
We can sit down here at this table and looked through them it will only take a few minutes.
She says, "Da mn, I saw some 1945's in there, I don't have time for this."
I will tell you what, you take them home and go through them.
I am the manager of the gas station next door. You pull out the pre-1965 coins and I will buy them from you.
She put the nickels in the machine and grumpily left with the dimes and quarters.
I guess I ruined her Saturday.
There are a lot of people who have no understanding that there is real silver in coins or NO gold in the Golden dollars.
I too check the Coinstar daily. Once I found the return slot full, my two pockets were weighed down.
Found the usual, Canadian, Foreign, and Wheaties. IIRC there was around $8
Joe >>
Some folks just don't care, at least twice a month someone would come into the bank and make a coin deposit, deposit gold and silver certs. etc. The tellers would try to enlightened them and always to no avail. These items soon became property of the bank employees. After a couple tellers would call me out to assist knowing I was a collector I told them to give it up. You can't talk sense to someone who doesn't want to hear it. One of those things I had to learn not to feel guilty about.
--Severian the Lame
It would be fun to go thru a machine's contents at some time. I find it handy not to have to re-roll coins from the bank and the machine I use gives gift cards to retailers at full value. And they are retailers (ie Lowe's hardware) that I use!
Friend of mine was in a bank and the person in line ahead of him was either exchanging or depositing some old $500.00 bills!.. He's more a currency / stamp collector than a coin collector, but he can spot a $500.00 or $1000.00 bill from 20398203981 miles away.. after the fool who deposited or exchanged some $500.00 bills left, he BEGGED the teller to sell those notes to him.. she refused, saying "We have to turn those in.. bank policy".. or something like that..
Maybe ten years ago or longer, I was in a certain Las Vegas casino, which has a convention center attached to it.. killing time waiting for the doors of a computer convention in another part of the building to open.. so I'm meandering around, trying to resist the siren call of VP machines, and I walked past an ATM.. it was the older-style - they used to suck your card in, read the strip, and spit it back out.. they didn't use swipers like modern ones do.. and the modern ones go back to the "please swipe your card" screen after whoever last used it walks away.. no.. someone hadn't left their card in the spitting-out slot.. no, they hadn't left cash in the "here's your cash" slot".. but on the screen, it said "Would you like another transaction?".. umm.. uhh.. err..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
Anybody know?
- 1975 Canadian dime (clad)..
- 1948-S Silver Roosevelt.. woo hoo!.. heh..
- 1951-D Silver Roosevelt.. woo hoo! V2.0.. heh V2.0..
- 200x bent Roosevelt.. "eh"..
At least I got some Silver this time..
What's the melt value of a 90% Silver Dime with Silver at $18.40 an ounce?.. I just took a stupid pill.. let's see.. a tenth of an ounce would be $1.84 minus 10% so let's round it up to $1.70-ish.. so $3.40-ish worth of Silver just for bothering to reach into the slot..
Well, that's worth 1/2 a
If I lived within walking distance of the store, I'd check that machine daily.. but I don't..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
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<< <i>I'm still wondering about the bakery rack near the restrooms. >>
They prune through the mile-long bakery aisle for anything that expires "tomorrow", say a $3.50 loaf of premium bread, and put a "Manager's special" sticker on it for $1.00 or even 50 cents.. and put it on this very tall rack on wheels with many shelves.. what's on that rack varies from day to day.. today they had a lot of un-sold Halloween cookies and cakes and such.. along with all kinds of bread, buns, muffins, bagels, you name it.. ...this morning I picked up a few loaves of premium brand multi-grain bread, cinnamon bread, sourdough bread, and sliced pound cake, all of it at anywhere from 1/3 to 1/4 the regular price.. stick a loaf of bread in the refrigerator and it'll last for a couple of weeks.. stick it in the freezer, it'll last for months.. leave it out at room temperature, and it'll start growng green fuzz after ten days or so.. >>
Great bread thread here!
Glad I stumbled across this one...
---Ambrose Bierce, while attending a Heritage Auction at the 1907 Long Beach show