kennedyfan
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- Jul 22, 2011
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OK, I"ve been hearing about cherry-picking tellers for a while here, but I've never experienced one outright, where they have silver and refuse to sell it to you.
Here's what happened. I asked for halves and big dollars as usual, and she pulls out 4 rolls. Says that there might have been some silver ones. I keep mum. Anyhow, she opens up each roll -- I tell her "that's a $10 roll, right? You don't have to open it up" but she says that she has to "count" them. Anyhow, the first three I can see are skunky. The fourth roll is solid silver. And she says she's going to keep them. I ask if I could get some of them, but she says no. Anyhow, the teller at the next station over has gotten interested, and my teller points out how they are silver, etc. GRRR. Anyhow, I decide to play it dumb, so I buy the other rolls. Now I know M&M here would have cussed out the teller and stormed out angrily, but I figured I didn't want to burn any bridges, especially since the next teller said she had a bunch of halves too.
Anyhow, I'm finishing up with this cherry picking teller and she says "Here, you can get a couple of these older dollars". She pulls out a ROLL of MORGAN DOLLARS and takes two out, and gives them to me in my change. Maybe she felt sorry for me, or just thought I was nice! I have NO idea why she wouldn't let me have any of the half dollars from the sixties, but sells me two dollar coins (1878, 1879 Philadelphia) at face value!
But no way, I wasn't going to argue with her on that. :-)
So the moral of the story is, don't completely count out cherry picking tellers. They might have a pleasant surprise for you.
But wait, there's more! The next teller over has dumped out an envelope of her odd coins, and has started to sort out the small dollar coins from the Eisenhower dollar coins from the half dollars. And most of her half dollars are silver Kennedies! And she gladly sells them all to me, in spite of being "educated" by her colleague.
So from these two tellers, I got almost $150 worth of silver for $7.50. Yeah, miss cherry pickin' teller is sitting on a prize, but I walked out of there happy regardless.
(Maybe next time I'm in that town I'll visit again and see if she is willing to sell me some above face value....)
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Here's what happened. I asked for halves and big dollars as usual, and she pulls out 4 rolls. Says that there might have been some silver ones. I keep mum. Anyhow, she opens up each roll -- I tell her "that's a $10 roll, right? You don't have to open it up" but she says that she has to "count" them. Anyhow, the first three I can see are skunky. The fourth roll is solid silver. And she says she's going to keep them. I ask if I could get some of them, but she says no. Anyhow, the teller at the next station over has gotten interested, and my teller points out how they are silver, etc. GRRR. Anyhow, I decide to play it dumb, so I buy the other rolls. Now I know M&M here would have cussed out the teller and stormed out angrily, but I figured I didn't want to burn any bridges, especially since the next teller said she had a bunch of halves too.
Anyhow, I'm finishing up with this cherry picking teller and she says "Here, you can get a couple of these older dollars". She pulls out a ROLL of MORGAN DOLLARS and takes two out, and gives them to me in my change. Maybe she felt sorry for me, or just thought I was nice! I have NO idea why she wouldn't let me have any of the half dollars from the sixties, but sells me two dollar coins (1878, 1879 Philadelphia) at face value!
But no way, I wasn't going to argue with her on that. :-)
So the moral of the story is, don't completely count out cherry picking tellers. They might have a pleasant surprise for you.
But wait, there's more! The next teller over has dumped out an envelope of her odd coins, and has started to sort out the small dollar coins from the Eisenhower dollar coins from the half dollars. And most of her half dollars are silver Kennedies! And she gladly sells them all to me, in spite of being "educated" by her colleague.
So from these two tellers, I got almost $150 worth of silver for $7.50. Yeah, miss cherry pickin' teller is sitting on a prize, but I walked out of there happy regardless.
(Maybe next time I'm in that town I'll visit again and see if she is willing to sell me some above face value....)
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