$ilver$urfer
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Well, it happened folks, I was about an arms length away from the score of the century (i.e. - maybe even better than ABMs ginormous score last week, but probably not!!!) 
I was in a local branch that always saves half dollars for me and I get in there 5 minutes before closing to pick up my weekly order of dimes. The tellers are all sweethearts and I always bring them chocolates. At any rate, some old lady pushing 80 was with her grandson and they were cashing in over $2000 worth of old rolls of half dollars. The rolls were every color of the rainbow; ones I have never seen before and super old and tattered and had writing on them signifying the year and contents but it was hard for me to read them but I swear I saw good ones. One roll popped open while they were counting them and I thought I saw a 40%er or two in it. In passing I asked the old lady if that was someones collection and with a sad look she said yes, I actually feel bad about asking. ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
The tellers asked me if I wanted them and I said of course. The bank was closed so they said they need to finalize the counts and I could come in first thing in the morning and buy them. Trusting them because of our great relationship, I left and had visions of sugarplums in my head all night. Needless to say, but I was waiting in the bank parking lot 15 minutes before them opened. When I go in the tellers are acting kind of funny and the one girl who said I could buy them was all red in the face and flushed. I asked to buy the half dollars and she said we cannot sell them to you because the rolls were a mess and we need to "verify the counts". I could tell it was a canned response and she seemed really nervous so I offered to buy the rolls off of them for what they paid the lady and she said she couldn't because they needed to verify the count and said the branch manager told us this. I asked to speak with him and he was a bigger guy posturing over me with a real loud, intimidating voice saying we cannot sell you those half dollars until we verify the count of the coins in the rolls. I said the girls always sell me the half dollars and I would gladly incur any losses in any of the rolls were a coin or two short here and there. He said he wouldn't sell them to me. I informed him the tellers said I could come in first thing tomorrow morning and have them and then said isn't it bank policy to sell customers coins upon request if you have them? He ignored the facts and the question and said verbatim, "Listen, I know silver is over $40 an ounce and with that many rolls coming in we need to see and verify what is in those rolls." So you won't sell them to me? "Nope!" He abruptly left to his office and I asked the teller why and she was just shaking her head silently. Needless to say, I called the central customer service line and filed a formal complaint against the manager. I asked them if it was bank policy to have bank employees searching through rolled coin on company time, I also told them what he said about the price of silver and how I felt intimidated during the whole ordeal. We will see what happens...
Could have been the score of the century folks....
HH,
$ilver$urfer
I was in a local branch that always saves half dollars for me and I get in there 5 minutes before closing to pick up my weekly order of dimes. The tellers are all sweethearts and I always bring them chocolates. At any rate, some old lady pushing 80 was with her grandson and they were cashing in over $2000 worth of old rolls of half dollars. The rolls were every color of the rainbow; ones I have never seen before and super old and tattered and had writing on them signifying the year and contents but it was hard for me to read them but I swear I saw good ones. One roll popped open while they were counting them and I thought I saw a 40%er or two in it. In passing I asked the old lady if that was someones collection and with a sad look she said yes, I actually feel bad about asking. The tellers asked me if I wanted them and I said of course. The bank was closed so they said they need to finalize the counts and I could come in first thing in the morning and buy them. Trusting them because of our great relationship, I left and had visions of sugarplums in my head all night. Needless to say, but I was waiting in the bank parking lot 15 minutes before them opened. When I go in the tellers are acting kind of funny and the one girl who said I could buy them was all red in the face and flushed. I asked to buy the half dollars and she said we cannot sell them to you because the rolls were a mess and we need to "verify the counts". I could tell it was a canned response and she seemed really nervous so I offered to buy the rolls off of them for what they paid the lady and she said she couldn't because they needed to verify the count and said the branch manager told us this. I asked to speak with him and he was a bigger guy posturing over me with a real loud, intimidating voice saying we cannot sell you those half dollars until we verify the count of the coins in the rolls. I said the girls always sell me the half dollars and I would gladly incur any losses in any of the rolls were a coin or two short here and there. He said he wouldn't sell them to me. I informed him the tellers said I could come in first thing tomorrow morning and have them and then said isn't it bank policy to sell customers coins upon request if you have them? He ignored the facts and the question and said verbatim, "Listen, I know silver is over $40 an ounce and with that many rolls coming in we need to see and verify what is in those rolls." So you won't sell them to me? "Nope!" He abruptly left to his office and I asked the teller why and she was just shaking her head silently. Needless to say, I called the central customer service line and filed a formal complaint against the manager. I asked them if it was bank policy to have bank employees searching through rolled coin on company time, I also told them what he said about the price of silver and how I felt intimidated during the whole ordeal. We will see what happens...
Could have been the score of the century folks....
HH,
$ilver$urfer
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), then I would pay a more "fair" price. 
