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Is it better to order or just ask if they have boxes?

mws_1984

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Got $50 I want to turn into some coins to search. Was thinking I'd just go turn it into some pennies to go thru and look for coppers. At least grab a box if they had it and maybe see if they have any halves. But I got concerned that I'd get something with all new pennies. This CU does use coin sorters so would I possibly be getting someones junk? Not sure if the stuff gets rolled in house or if they send it out?

But to avoid getting anything new is it better to order boxes? I'm not sure what they would have onhand.
 
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Glad to see you made it over here.

Most banks receive rolled coin from an armored car service such as Loomis or Brinks. That is, they receive shotgun rolled coins that way. Quite a few banks take in customer rolled coins, but not all do. Some require you to put it in a bag and it will be sent off for counting and deposit into your account. Some don't take loose coin at all per se. They might have a coin counter in their lobby. They may have a coin counter in the back. They may require you to use the counter. Rarely, but occasionally you will find a bank that actually counts and shotgun rolls coins. There is one bank here that does that. I aslo ran into one in Custer, SD that counts and shotgun rolls coins. And far as do they have boxes, you have to ask. Even different branches of a certain bank in the same city may be different. You might be getting someone's dumps, then again you might be getting something off a coin counter from a completely different bank in another city (a bag of coins let's say). You might be getting something that was sorted, counted, and bagged in a facility like a bank's central vault. There are any number of possibilities where the coins can be coming from. Some cxoin counters will cull and reject silver and wheaties. Some don't.

You never know until you ask. Jump in with both feet and find out. You can't get into trouble by asking.

HH

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BTW - getting a box of brand new pennies or dimes happens. You can't control that unless you don't buy coins.

HH

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For now I'm probably just going to work with this $50 and see what I can get out of it. I can do many combinations if I figure what I want ahead of time. Keep things lively.
Did $50 in dimes, nothing, turned it in to my secondary bank branch office, and then just got $20 in nickels at the main office of my secondary bank . Teller didn't seem to thrilled about what I wanted when I asked if she had halves. Didn't even make an effort to ask the others. So gonna only try to ask for halves from my long time bank. Have a relationship there. So much for trying to have 2 feed banks and one dump.
Maybe I'll get into trying all over and then just having one dump bank. All depends if you need an account which is ridiculous. I had to give my account at my dump bank even though I was taking the cash.
 

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