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Boy, did I ever score at the bank today *PIC ADDED* 1st post

UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
Today at Wells Fargo:

Teller: Hi! You still looking for old coins?

Me: Sure! What ya got?

Teller: Old customer just brought in about 20 rolls of pennies.

Me: I'll take them!


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20 rolls, from 1944 up to 1953. All appear to be unmolested BU bank wrapped rolls.

What would you do? Bust them open and look for gems? Ebay auction with the title, " L@@K! Unsearched Wheat Hoard!!!!". Sell them as they are?

Here's a pic of a couple of 10 from a 46 P roll. How do they look? Any grade guesses?
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Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
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    BUST EM! Post pics here!
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    crispycrispy Posts: 792 ✭✭✭
    And to think, I get the stink-eye if I ask for any rolled material at my banking institution. Congrats on the huge score.
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    WOW! If you put them on ebay, let us know! If you bust em open, show us pics! Good score!
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
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    originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    You should track down the customer who turned them in and offer FMV for them. After all, everyone makes mistakes, and it's an awful, awful thing for you to take advantage of a nice old person. image
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    lope208lope208 Posts: 1,960 ✭✭
    I agree, crack em open! All I got yesterday was a bunch of post 1970's clad halves image Still searching though for something elusive!
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    That is incredible. Congrats!
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    richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    Hope their not from someones collection that got ripped off...

    Nice Score !
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    UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You should track down the customer who turned them in and offer FMV for them. After all, everyone makes mistakes, and it's an awful, awful thing for you to take advantage of a nice old person. image >>



    Was it someone here? If it was, let me know and I'll send you a check...
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
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    JoeLewisJoeLewis Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm confused. Do these bank tellers not understand the value of older coins? Why do they just give them out like that. They should buy them themselves for face value.
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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275
    Congrats on the score.

    Crack them out, keep the keepers, and send the "less impressive" examples to me image
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You should track down the customer who turned them in and offer FMV for them. After all, everyone makes mistakes, and it's an awful, awful thing for you to take advantage of a nice old person. image >>



    It's a zero sum game. For every "score", someone is getting hosed.
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    UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm confused. Do these bank tellers not understand the value of older coins? Why do they just give them out like that. They should buy them themselves for face value. >>



    This particular teller knows I'll take care of her...
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
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    saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>You should track down the customer who turned them in and offer FMV for them. After all, everyone makes mistakes, and it's an awful, awful thing for you to take advantage of a nice old person. image >>



    It's a zero sum game. For every "score", someone is getting hosed. >>



    ain't that TFB? image


    Definately bust them up and send in anything worth more than slab fees. You have the potential for making 50X+ your cost. And if you get any MS67's it's a lotto winner!
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    jhusmanjhusman Posts: 1,082
    unfortunately, some do understand. I had a great connection at a local bank until they hired a new teller, and she now takes anything that might be of value.

    Frustrating.
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    SG only opened this thread because he thought that you scored in a bank. imageimageimageimage
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    jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421
    Wow do those look red. You suck
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>SG only opened this thread because he thought that you scored in a bank. imageimageimageimage >>



    I must admit that I was thinking "Desperate Housewives" when I read the title.

    ain't that TFB? image

    As it would be if a family member needed some quick cash and sold one of your Saints for bullion. image
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    IMHO..........I would think you have to search the 44's

    44 zinc maybe ??





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    LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Those ones on the ends look incredible. Hopefully the rest of the roll is not filled with washers. image

    Seriously, great score and I would have busted those out in the car before I even got home!
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    saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭
    They sho' is RED!
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    BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations, and thanks in advance for entering me into your generous giveaway. image

    Seriously, though, send them to me and I will double your money image
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    CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭
    Get out your cherrypickers guide and have a fun weekend! image
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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is impossible. There are no hoards of original modern coins in original bank rolls. If there were, people wouldn't pay so much for modern "conditional rarities".
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,503 ✭✭✭✭
    Bust em open or sellem to me for double your money! image
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    SilverstateSilverstate Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭
    That is awesome.

    I also bank at Wells Fargo.

    They hold stuff for me all of the time.

    This proves it is good that the tellers and managers know you want coins.

    It is just great customer relations.

    Congrads!
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    This particular teller knows I'll take care of her...

    I'm afraid to ask what that means!
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    PawPaulPawPaul Posts: 5,845
    it`s the bomb all right - I should be so jealous ....but heck , it`s great to here about a find like this !!
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    BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    I'm still waiting for someone to turn in a hoard of early 1800's half eagle gold coins. image
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    relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,279 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice score........What does the printing on the wrappers say?

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    Hi, my elderly parents just deposited some rolled pennies at wells fargo....send them back to the bank and I won't

    have to hurt you image JUST KIDDING.....CONGRATS ON A GREAT SCORE!
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    UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Nice score........What does the printing on the wrappers say?

    JJ >>



    "THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK"
    "of the city of New York"
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
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    tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Damn you!!!

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    << <i>Damn you!!!

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    Double damn!!!
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    57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    great score....image

    I should talk to my bank manager and see if they have any "stuff". They see me enough the "Bill-the-neurotic-middle-aged-man" checking his contents of his SBD weekly....for milk spots. just kinda hard to look thru the food saver bags....image
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    Open them! They look great!
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    speetyspeety Posts: 5,424
    Offer them here at the price you got them for plus shipping! image

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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    I think this calls for a giveaway of some sort. Congrats on the great score!

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    mustanggtmustanggt Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats, a teller worth taking care of......
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    What a deal! Those things never happen to me.

    I have two similar stories...

    My sister-in-law is a bank teller. One day, and older gent walks in with a jar of dimes to cash in. The teller he went to saw that they were silver and suggested he go to a coin shop. He just wanted the cash, so he took is $27 in bills and left. The teller who took the coins was not interested in them, so my sister-in-law snatched them up. Turns out, they'd been in that jar for a long time. There were a few Barbers, 100+ Mercs, and the rest were mostly AU/BU "S" mint dimes from 1946 through 1952, with nothing newer than 1952. A nice buy for $27.

    My aunt worked as a teller in a Seattle bank back in the 80's. One day, a guy came in and bought a few rolls of 50c pieces. A little while later, he came back with more cash -- and bought more rolls from my aunt. A short time later, he came back with even more cash -- waited to be served by my aunt -- and wanted to buy all of her 25c, 50c, and dollar rolls. But he should have left well-enough alone, because the bank got wise and check the rolls. Turns out, many of them were cashed in by a thief from a local coin store robbery. The rolls were mostly BU walking liberty halfs, franklins, Morgans, etc. The man had to give his name to the bank and he eventually had to return all the previously stolen rolls he'd bought.

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    moonshinemoonshine Posts: 1,039 ✭✭
    let me be the first to say

    YOU SUCK!
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    JJMJJM Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you have 20 rolls, Id be bustin at least 10 of them open, if you havent already image
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    originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    I agree with the TFB attitude, though I do wish I knew a teller willing to give me windfall profits instead of keeping it for themselves. If I were a teller and it was "within the rules" of my bank, you bet I'd take $500 in silver halves some old coot brought in, for example, and immediately pay for them with $500 out of my own account.
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,012 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Due diligence

    You suck over 100 times.
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    I'm crappin my pants as I speak...image
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    holy crap!!
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    IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    Some of youse guys are very very very very very naive. In 35+ years of banking experiences the only thing that happens when you try to explain to a bank customer that maybe they should oughta take them there coins to a dealer is that you get nasty looks that tells you too mind your own bizness. You learn quickly no good deed goes unpunished. After 4 or 5 of these encounters the tellers just set the stuff aside for me to pick through.

    When will you realize some folks just don't want to be educated. Go teach some college courses if you want reinforcement of that principal. image
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    UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm going to bust these open tonight, pull out about a dozen of the best and send them in. I have a $150 credit for submissions that I might as well use up. First though, I'll post some pics here and let you all see what they look like.
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>When will you realize some folks just don't want to be educated. Go teach some college courses if you want reinforcement of that principal. >>



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    Nice haul. And search and submit, one of the ones you show is as nice as my PCGS MS67.

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    YaHaYaHa Posts: 4,220


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    << <i>I'm confused. Do these bank tellers not understand the value of older coins? Why do they just give them out like that. They should buy them themselves for face value. >>



    This particular teller knows I'll take care of her... >>




    Did you know that you and your bank teller friend are committing bank/compnany fraud? There is a company that is hired by certain banks to collect old coins for possible metals value and other coins for stock holders year end auction sales. I would be very careful in obtaining property that belongs to someone before making a quick buck for yourself.

    I know this first hand as a ex retail store manager of a grocery chain here in the state of Maryland. I once came across 3 $1,000.00 bills back in 1982 and bought them after my shift. As I thought I could exchange currency for currrency at the level of my title, I was called back into my office by my supervisor and was told I had two choices return the bills I bought/swapped or get a 2 week suspension without pay. And on my suspension a written reason on my record.

    I later contested the whole mess that had happened in front of me and found out that crisp unc $1,000.00 carry a huge premium and the owner told me that his foundation had a deal with a coin dealer here in the Washington Dc area to buy all old coins, all scarce notes and errors to boot. So I gave back the notes and got my money back. A month later the owner sent me a $500 store coupon for my honesty and told me that his foundation recieved over $10,000 for the 3 notes in question at a silent auction. They were dated in the 1928 if I recalled and were in bu+ condition.

    So be careful Johnny is always looking for his cut.

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