Have you ever been asked?

[onfire]

Dumped a bag at a new teller today and she asks is the bag clean? Puzzled i said yes except for my fingerprints She says someone she was not familiar with. dumps a bag and had left small pieces of paper from the rolls Kept clogging up the machine. Funny, never thought of it. Maybe a nubie.


Anyway 5 hundred $ worth of dimes turns 2 rosies.

 

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[maverick]

I've never been asked that. I could understand though, I guess. HH, Maverick.

 

[MentalUnrest]

Just last week a teller told me a story of a guy who brought bags of his detector finds in--uncleaned. They finally told him they could not run his coins if he brought them in that condition.

I detect a lot and I know how those coins look when you dig them out of the ground. Can not imagine bringing in coins like that and expect the bank to run them. I have a rock tumbler and always run my finds through before taking to bank. Common sense is really lacking in some people.

MU

 

[sagittarius98]

Just last week a teller told me a story of a guy who brought bags of his detector finds in--uncleaned. They finally told him they could not run his coins if he brought them in that condition.

I detect a lot and I know how those coins look when you dig them out of the ground. Can not imagine bringing in coins like that and expect the bank to run them. I have a rock tumbler and always run my finds through before taking to bank. Common sense is really lacking in some people.

MU

Same, I even take all the corroded coins in circulation and throw them in the tumbler. All the decomposed zincolns that can't be spent I send would send to the Mint (they pay you back for mutilated coins).

 

[TheMcs]

My regular bank got rid of their coin counters because of the maintenance demands resulting from rubber bands, paper clips, hair, etc in people's coins.

 

[GlenDronach]

I saw some total jerk a few weeks ago just dump his jar in the machine and run it. I was pulling out golf markers, tees, bolts, etc. out of the machine after him. And he left a bunch of foreign by the machine and I was excited. While I was dumping I just pored over them, not touching them, just a surface check. When he was done cashing he came back over and took them. What a weird dude.

 

[AdDicted2Ag]

I have seen sand, washers, bolts, screws, buttons, marbles, fingernails and much more.. One day it even looked like somebody had dumped flour in with the coins.. People are just ridiculous..

 

[boristhespider88]

I never realized just how nasty money was until I started CRHing. When I finish a box of halves or nickels, it looks like I stuck my hands up inside a chimney and got black soot all over them...

People are gross.

 

[GarouLady]

I clean out our coinstar at work all the time and I can name all the stuff that gets dumped in it all the time. Luckily our coinstar has a grate to sift out the junk. But I have found drill bits, jewerly junk, earring backings, fishhooks, bits of paper and the worse thing ever, bullets. Live active 22 bullets. I have found over 12 of them so far, 6 at one time. because of all of that I always make sure my coins are clean. I even let the tellers know before turning in my coins, just so they don't blame me for when stuff from the last customer jams it up and comes out underneath.

Smiles,
Garoulady

 

[FloridaFinder]

I never realized just how nasty money was until I started CRHing. When I finish a box of halves or nickels, it looks like I stuck my hands up inside a chimney and got black soot all over them...

People are gross.

That's why I started wearing disposable nitrile gloves. The coins are rather nasty looking especially with all the coin markers and painters. I highly recommend a box of those disposable gloves from Harbor Freight.

 

[Nydus Touch]

Same.

 

[TheMcs]

the worse thing ever, bullets. Live active 22 bullets. I have found over 12 of them so far, 6 at one time.

Bullets without a barrel to provide trajectory are relatively harmless. Especially .22s. The shell will travel further than the round. All will lose steam pretty quick.

Still incredibly irresponsible of whoever dumped them.

My 1.5 yr old will drop anything shiny (and not always a requirement) into my big change jug. Had to dump it out once to retrieve my watch.