The local banks will not order halves. Went to closest city, about 1 hour away, and they will not order halves. Went out 1 1/2 hours to a larger city and found a branch of BOA that will order as many boxes as I want. I don't want to press my luck, so I ordered 2 boxes for last week (1-64, 4-40%) . Today
I ordered 6 boxes to be picked up Thursday or Friday, and told them I won't be back down until next month. Then went to a local bank this a.m. in which I have a checking account and they have a coin counting machine. I talked to the manager and he said it was okay to bring in as many halves as I want to--just try to do it at the slower times.
He said a person had brought in $30,000 (!) worth of coins and they were okay with that. I told him I would have loved to have bought that $30,000 to go through. He said they were mixed coins.
Even though I have to drive the distance, I go shopping in the area and I have a Prius which gets 50 mph.
Hoping this works out for the summer before I head down south again. I usually get just $1,000 in halves a week, but plan on trying to order from several banks. Also talked to my credit union down south, which has a coin counting machine that drops everything into a big bin, about buying that bin; they seemed receptive.
I actually feel quite lucky.
I ordered 6 boxes to be picked up Thursday or Friday, and told them I won't be back down until next month. Then went to a local bank this a.m. in which I have a checking account and they have a coin counting machine. I talked to the manager and he said it was okay to bring in as many halves as I want to--just try to do it at the slower times.
He said a person had brought in $30,000 (!) worth of coins and they were okay with that. I told him I would have loved to have bought that $30,000 to go through. He said they were mixed coins.Even though I have to drive the distance, I go shopping in the area and I have a Prius which gets 50 mph.
Hoping this works out for the summer before I head down south again. I usually get just $1,000 in halves a week, but plan on trying to order from several banks. Also talked to my credit union down south, which has a coin counting machine that drops everything into a big bin, about buying that bin; they seemed receptive.
I actually feel quite lucky.
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A guy employee even brought the boxes out to my car and put them in the trunk. I brought them some nice chocolate and they seemed to really appreciate it.
