blueberra
Full Member
First, the backstory ...
Before my acquisition bank stopped getting me half dollar boxes, I used to dump my halves at a different bank.
The dump bank has two coin machines -- a beast which takes halves and sits in the safe deposit box room (away from the public because it breaks down frequently, but it is really fast) and a smaller machine in the lobby. The lobby machine does not take halves or small dollar coins. Unlike other bank coin machines that spin the coins around, this one has a conveyor belt and the coins slowly move from left to right as they are counted.
My brother had a bunch of coins that he wanted to cash in, but he didn't want to pay any service fee, so I said I'd do it for him.
Everything was going fine until the machine stopped with a 'see attendant' message, so I alerted a teller and she opened up the machine.
The problem was that the internal reject chute was full, so she started to empty it. I'm not sure why this particular machine did not reject these coins in the front reject tray, but I asked the teller what she typically does with these coins and she kind of shrugged her shoulders, so I asked her if I could have them. She agreed.
Not too shabby ... the bronze colored coins are French francs from the 1920s -- not sure what the small hole is all about.
Before my acquisition bank stopped getting me half dollar boxes, I used to dump my halves at a different bank.
The dump bank has two coin machines -- a beast which takes halves and sits in the safe deposit box room (away from the public because it breaks down frequently, but it is really fast) and a smaller machine in the lobby. The lobby machine does not take halves or small dollar coins. Unlike other bank coin machines that spin the coins around, this one has a conveyor belt and the coins slowly move from left to right as they are counted.
My brother had a bunch of coins that he wanted to cash in, but he didn't want to pay any service fee, so I said I'd do it for him.
Everything was going fine until the machine stopped with a 'see attendant' message, so I alerted a teller and she opened up the machine.
The problem was that the internal reject chute was full, so she started to empty it. I'm not sure why this particular machine did not reject these coins in the front reject tray, but I asked the teller what she typically does with these coins and she kind of shrugged her shoulders, so I asked her if I could have them. She agreed.
Not too shabby ... the bronze colored coins are French francs from the 1920s -- not sure what the small hole is all about.
