Bank account numbers on dump rolls?

[mts]

After receiving a wheat penny in change tonight from Target, I figured it was a sign of good luck so I headed to the bank. This bank NEVER has halves but tonight was the exception: 12 CWR's of halves. I took them all. The catch was that the cashier had to mark out the customer's account number with a marker. I didn't know whether or not that was a good or a bad thing. I haven't written my account number on a roll of change in years. This made me think that they were turned in by some old lady. The anticipation of getting home and opening them was killing me.

Result: 100% skunks. You could tell that this was some hunter's dumps. So the question is... do you guys write your account number on your dumps? I don't. Is seeing an account number on CWR's a good sign or a bad sign? The last set I got with an account number had 1 40% half in about $50 worth.

 

[santafeboy]

I did today on some quarters i was dumping only because the teller asked me to. Also on the $100 in cwrs I bought the teller crossed out the account number on all of them.Most of the time they never ask me to write it on the rolls

 

[mts]

I did today on some quarters i was dumping only because the teller asked me to. Also on the $100 in cwrs I bought the teller crossed out the account number on all of them.Most of the time they never ask me to write it on the rolls

What was the result on the $100 in CWR's you bought that had account numbers on them?

 

[santafeboy]

I did today on some quarters i was dumping only because the teller asked me to. Also on the $100 in cwrs I bought the teller crossed out the account number on all of them.Most of the time they never ask me to write it on the rolls

What was the result on the $100 in CWR's you bought that had account numbers on them?

kind of bleak 1 1975 Canadian (which briefly fooled me in the poor light ) and a dozen or so mint 2009 Northern Mariannas Islands (unsure if worth keeping but probably will)

 

[koala33]

Think about it. Some banks write the acct number on the roll in case it is short. Then your acct gets charged..

 

[Lawrence]

I bought a bunch of rolls that were someone else's dumps (re-wrapped machine rolls) and they had an account number on them. This was at a Citizen's.

 

[mts]

Think about it. Some banks write the acct number on the roll in case it is short. Then your acct gets charged..

I understand the original purpose. However, I haven't been asked to do it in a long time. In fact, I was specifically asked NOT to do it about five years ago by a teller before I got into CRH'ing. It is a liability thing. Think about it.... that cashier gives me those coins with someone else's account number on it without taking the time to mark it out.... now I have their account number and that customer gets ticked off. In fact, the marker she used didn't really completely obfuscate the number which was written fairly hard in ball point pen. So I technically have the account number already (not that I would ever abuse it).

I was just curious if things had changed and if seeing an account number was a sign either way. I guess not.

 

[AGBlex]

man i hope i dont have to write my number on them... that is alot of rolls to write on

 

[Bigheed]

its an antiquated banking procedure before fraud was an epidemic. I find silver dimes in CWR with acct #'s , it usually old people anyways who are still in the habit of doing it.

if you bring in a ton of coins they make you coin lock em and just put your acct # on the bag.

I would never put my # on rolls if I re-rolled.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Sometimes if I dump a few rolls at the gas station, they ask to write my phone number on the roll.
I've found silver in rolls with acct#'s, and without.
Sometimes the tellers ink out the #, often times not.
Business accts most often aren't asked to add their # to the rolls.
All coin rolls are someones "dumps", even little old ladies dump.

 

[mts]

its an antiquated banking procedure before fraud was an epidemic. I find silver dimes in CWR with acct #'s , it usually old people anyways who are still in the habit of doing it.

That's what I was thinking. I figured since there were a bunch of account numbers that perhaps it was some little old lady who was around back when they required you to do it. Evidently I was wrong.

Oh well, thanks for the feedback. I guess the rule of thumb is that it doesn't matter. Account numbers or not, you just never know what is in the rolls and you should buy them anyway. 12 rolls of halves all marked with an account number are destined to be either a huge score or a huge bust. Unfortunately for me, it was a bust.

 

[ivan salis]

I have to put my name on my rolls * it's a if the roll is short- teller thing * - (using my name my banks can the look up my account and debit it if I'm short say a half ( 50 cents) but I NEVER use my account # way too big of a chance of fiscal abuse if it falls into the wrong hands.)

 

[usandthem]

I live in a small town so I write my first name on the half rolls that I dump. Even though I don't dump where I pick up I still sometimes get my searched rolls at my pick up bank.

 

[db23]

Not to stir the pot, but I don't see the big deal. My account number is on every check I write to someone...

If I were re-rolling and was asked to put my account number on the rolls, I'd run to staples and buy a stamp for a few bucks.

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Think about it. Some banks write the acct number on the roll in case it is short. Then your acct gets charged..

One thing I wonder, say you get a roll of halves and it is short, you take them back to the bank, but the account number is crossed out so how do they charge the person if they do not know who it is? Or are the tellers suppose to open and count the rolls before they give them out? I am pretty sure they never re-count them at my bank. Maybe the fact that you write your account number on a roll in the first place makes the likelihood of shorted rolls remote.

 

[Bigheed]

if you buy CWR and dont have the teller count it out , its pretty much on you.

I guess thats the risk we take for CRHing.

At one of my CWR pickup sites i get 500-1000 in quarters per week as well as other stuff, but theres always a few rolls from the same customer who slips a nickel into 2-3 rolls of quarters, doesn't bother me, but if I start finding like more than 10 per week like that I will alert the tellers.

Last night a bunch of my yellow wrapped Fed rolled halves had 21 coins in them, was kinda funny to see them standing a hair higher than the others, I counted them and sure enough.

 

[WormtownFJR]

CWR are the "gambling" part of this hobby. One tip I can give you is with cwr dimes: Run your finger down the roll while its on the counter to see if someone stuffed pennies in them. IF so point this out to the teller. Twice I did it and they looked at me like I invented cold fusion.

I've only been asked twice to ID my rolls. One was with a cu that it was policy at. The other was a bank that was just trying to avoid the half dollar love train. I figured out which was which after showing up there with a large amount of rolls unmarked at a rush time; clogging the line to see if they upheld their own "rules". I called the banks bluff, the cu held fast.