Cherry Picking Teller give me two Morgans!

kennedyfan

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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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cool story, good lesson, don't get upset and flip out at cherry picking tellers... My banks all have at least 1 cherry picking teller, but they sell me sealed boxes of coins with no question :)
 

dawg I would demand to see whats in the tellers drawer if she has enough silver to just hand out morgans shes obviously hiding more from you...
 

kennedyfan said:
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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Eminem said:
dawg I would demand to see whats in the tellers drawer if she has enough silver to just hand out morgans shes obviously hiding more from you...
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Being nice will get you farther in the long run.
 

Haha Em has a point too tho, if bein nice don't pan out, you can always hustle a brutha on da street after work lets out. LOL :laughing7:
 

Kennedyfan, you've had some great scores and cool stories behind them, always good to hear from ya

That teller is making out like a bandit, wow a ROLL of morgan dollars? I would've had a heart attack seeing a full roll in front of my face and not being able to buy any. Getting 2 of course may have saved me haha. That's awesome. Were they 40%s that she sniped? In that case she probably broke close to even keeping the kennedy roll and giving you two morgans. My bet is she's saving them for a family member/husband/boyfriend who told her to look out for silver, based on that.
 

I would raise a stink with the manager and demand all the coins. I've done it before, that's what tellers get for holding onto crap in their trays.
 

Be nice first, then offer her a fair price for them over face, then if that dosen't work have a fit. Demand a branch manager, and if he dosen't up, get a higher up. Scream at the teller and slap her telling her to start bringing the rolls out and make a sandwich (;; Kidding of course not intended to offend anyone.
 

wait she had a full roll of morgan dollars. why did you not ask for them all?
 

Re "I would demand to see whats in the tellers drawer" and "I would raise a stink with the manager" - Alas, I didn't have very much leverage. First of all, I don't have an account at the bank. So it's a privilege, not a right, that they would help me out at all. So I'll stick with my friendly technique instead of belligerant. Maybe next visit I'll be able to score some more, or make a deal on the side that makes us both happy.

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to bad you could not get all that silver!! nice finds
 

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