Whats the best coin and paper money you found at the bank
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My favorite coin I got at the bank since I never got silver would na a 2013d Native American dollar and for paper it would be a tie between an almost crisp 1950 twenty dollar and a 1934 hundred dollar bill.
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10 silver eagles for face
Yowzers !!!
I've received a couple of rolls of silver half dollars for face. Used be all the time when I'd silver in rolls.
For paper, not much. I did get some red seal two dollar notes once, but that's the best I can remember.
At one time, I was getting 100 packs of unc one dollar notes, but the place where good serial numbers should have been were replaced with star notes. I'm sure the good serial no. notes are pulled out before they ever get a chance to circulate.
A couple of dateless buffalos.
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Around 1970 when I was an early teen I decided to cash out a savings account I'd had since i was a tyke and get dime rolls. It was around $15 but I figured i should have accumulated some nice interest over 10 years. When I got there I was visibly disappointed when the teller told me it was a "special" kid's account, and did not collect interest. Then I got home and was doubly disappointed when my coin collecting friend told me the banks were now separating out the silver to take out of circulation, and my rolls would all be clad. When I opened the rolls, every single dime was silver, with lots of mercs. I've always had the feeling the teller did that intentionally. Since then I've always hated banks, but like tellers.
Today the "special" adult accounts, pay no interest.
I got 5 +/- rolls of steel cents, obviously someone had dumped their mini hoard.
When I worked with the Boy Scouts, at the Credit Union, they had a coin counter, like coinstar. I asked, and they put a note on the machine, if people wanted to donate foreign coins to the Boy Scouts, drop them off with the teller with the printout slip.
They always had a small jar for me, to help the scouts get the 50 coins needed. But 2 were WOWZERS. One was a 1 quart milk jug full of Canadian coins. The top were more modern, but about 1/2 or so down, the quarters, dimes, changed from the alloy to silver. The other was a box that had several thousand Wheaties, got chunk of steel coins, Buffaloes, Mercury dimes, some worn out Barbers.
The US and Silver Canadian (along with any foreign coins that had numismatic value, were sold to a couple dealers, and the funds used to help pay for campouts. Foreign coins that had high face value (Euros, Brit 20 pence and above, some Japanese, etc. were sold at the exchange rate to one of the Dad's who traveled overseas all the time.
It was a win win all around. Sadly, they got rid of the machine as it cost too much.
Years ago, but went to bank to buy some Canadian money. All they had was a bunch of 80% silver halves. I bought them at the current exchange and accepted the teller's apology for not having any notes.
I found about 600.00 cash flying all over the highway( 4 way light) in Mahopac, NY one day. I seen a guy get out of his car and started picking up bills. I decided I should help before the lights changed. Once I grabbed them all, I looked up and the guy drove off. I was in shock. Turned out it was not his money. I pulled into the gas station and asked around. gave them my phone#. 2 days later a kid called me. He just cashed his first pay check and realized he left his wallet on top car after pumping gas. I meet up with him and gave him the money. Turned out after the whole ordeal the other driver I had seen only got away with 20.00 bucks. He wanted to give me a reward. I declined and said just do me a favor kid....... Vote for the guy who will take less from your check not more.
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Two $1000 and one $500 bill from a local Wells Fargo branch.
19 rolls of 90% silver half dollars, lined up on a row.
1983 Doubled Die Reverse, later graded PCGS MS64RD, found in a bank roll around five years ago:
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"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
WOW!! what year did that happen?
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1006856/finding-500-or-1000-bills-in-circulation-local-banks#latest
My finds from a bank are zero for at least the last 40 years. However, within the past two weeks Coinstar reject slots have yielded a record breaking 104 coin lot (all US) and, at a different location, a 23 coin lot (mixed US and Canadian).
When I was younger, I had a lot of success finding coins and paper money from banks.
When I was in middle school (around 1995-1998) my grandmother would always take me to the bank so I could buy rolls of coins to look through. I had money from mowing several yards in my neighborhood so I could afford to order whole boxes of coins. I would order two $500 boxes of each week from one bank, and then deposit them at another bank. I realized that Nations Bank (Band of America now) and First Union (Wachovia and now Wells Fargo) used different armored car carriers and sent their money to completely different spots in the state. So I would buy from one and deposit at the other to keep from searching the same boxes. Doing this I found several hundred dollars in silver half dollars over the coarse of a few years. It was probably a 50/50 split between 40% kennedys and 90% kennedys/Franklins/WLH. I never found any barbers.
While I was roll searching I started going to a monthly coin show held not too far from home. I learned more about paper money here so I started looking for that too since I now had more money from selling some of the silver. I would order $1,000 bricks of $1.00 bills and search for web notes and star notes. There was a guy at the coin show who would pay $1.10 for every $1.00 star note, and even more for the web notes. I found hundreds of the star notes and a bunch of the web notes too. The best were the B-L block web notes which go for a few hundred dollars each now. I remember selling them for around $50-60 dollars and thinking it was like hitting the lottery to sell a $1.00 bill for $50 bucks lol. I would sell the stuff I found at the monthly coin show and then use the money to order more coins and paper money to look through. A few times I ordered $2,000 bricks of $2.00 bills and I found a lot of the 1953 red seal United States Notes, and a few dozen of the 1928 series United States Notes. I can't remember what series the best note I found was but I want to say it was a 1928-F or G. I remember I sold it for a couple hundred dollars.
The tellers at all the local banks knew me and would set aside cool stuff that came in. My mom owned a flower shop so I would bring them flowers and candies occasionally since they were always nice to me. Below are several of the things I got from tellers this way: 1966 $100 United States Note in really nice condition, several 1934 $50 and $100 bills in nice condition, lots of single silver half dollars that weren't in rolls, but were just in their trays. Once I went into the bank and the teller said she had something special for me, and said it was two rolls of silver quarters. I got home, and dumped them out and they were a bunch of silver washingtons, and a few SLQs nd barbers. Another time a different teller said she had rolls of "the big silver dollars", I bought them too and it was a bunch of Ikes, but there was a handful of 1922/1923 peace and 1921 morgan dollars in there too.
Eventually I moved out of my small town and went off to college and that's when I stopped doing the roll hunting. in 2007 though I got lucky because I was at college in north florida and that's where the bulk of the 2007 Washington $1.00 coins without the edge lettering went. I read about them in coin world, and went to the bank and bought a $2,000 box of them. I found several hundred of the coins without the edge lettering in that box and got really excited when they were going for $150-$175 each on ebay. I sold all of them and kept the best three to gave graded. (I still have those three, turns out I should have sold them too, since the prices have crashed) I went to several other banks and never found another one, but that first box was the motherload.
The cool thing is that whenever I go back home, I stop by the local bank because one of the tellers that would always save coins for me is still there. She still remembers me too even after 20 years.
A group of AU gold certificates turned in at face value. The branch manager wanted to get rid of them as fast as possible - didn't want questions from the FRB auditors. Got them at face value plus a couple of pizzas for the staff. (Helps to let your banker know your interests - sometimes.)
That’s an awesome find!
I have found one, 1941 WLH.... in all my half dollar roll searches... no other silver....and since I do not collect paper money, treasures may have passed right through my hands
Banks have not been a good source for me... Cheers, RickO
First photo was a box of rolls from a bank, the next is what was in them. The rest are a few other ones I've found on various bank visits. I was a hardcore CRH for a while. Sorry for the photo qualities.
Jim
😮 wow
1964 d quarter.... not as cool as most of your guys!